Episode

Taking Earth’s temperature

Podcast: Ask MIT Climate
Published: Feb 26, 2026
Duration seconds: 868
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Summary

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.