Piecing Together the Temperature Puzzle

The decade from 2000 to 2010 is regarded as the hottest in the modern record. “Piercing Together the Temperature Puzzle” explains how NASA satellites enable us to study possible causes of global change. The three major pieces of the climate puzzle are: how much of the sun's energy is reaching the Earth, how much of that energy is reflected back to space, and how much is being trapped within the atmosphere, heating the planet.