# Taking Earth’s temperature

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Podcast: [Ask MIT Climate](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ask-mit-climate-81054)
Published: 2026-02-26T10:00:00+00:00
Episode link: http://askmitclimate.org
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Duration seconds: 868

## Resource

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.

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