Other research has found that the urban heat island effect is not isolated to urban areas and that areas thought to be rural will show increased temperatures when they are downwind from an urban area (Brandsma, 2003) Another anomaly of the global temperature record is the apparent differences between the measurements taken from the ground based stations and those taken by satellites and weather balloons. ...

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The greenhouse effect as stated in the dictionary is the effect produced as greenhouse gases allow incoming solar radiation to pass through the Earth's atmosphere, but prevent most of the outgoing infrared radiation from the surface and lower atmosphere from escaping into outer space. This process o...

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