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The Earth is a fairly diverse place; the temperatures range from 140 degrees Fahrenheit in the desert summer to -130 degrees Fahrenheit in the arctic winter. Mostly for political reasons, many people who pretend to be scientists want to come up with a single "temperature" of the Earth, but it cannot be done.

The temperature is too varied. There are too few thermometers distributed to the more extreme areas, and satellite-based remote sensing is notoriously inaccurate. There are too many variables that are not being considered; for example, if a weather station thermometer is placed right next to the air conditioner exhaust vent for a building, is the reading really accurate? If the temperature this year is 10 degrees higher than it was 10 years ago, does it matter that the surrounding area is now urban rather than rural?

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