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Nature Geoscience 1, 347–348 (1 June 2008) | doi:10.1038/ngeo209

Atmospheric science: The answer is blowing in the wind

P. W. Thorne

In 1990, a paper boldly entitled “Precise monitoring of global temperature trends from satellites” suggested that according to satellite measurements there had been no net global warming in the troposphere (the part of the atmosphere stretching from the surface of the Earth up to 12–16 km in altitude). The radiosonde (balloon-based) temperature measurements that were available at the time supported this conclusion.