Ask MIT Climate
Ask MIT Climate
MIT Climate Project
Taking Earth’s temperature
14 minutes Posted Feb 26, 2026 at 10:00 am.
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Dr. Samantha Burgess, of the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, joins the show to explain how we know the temperature of the Earth, and how a global community of scientists works together to keep tabs on the health of our planet.