In addition to its weather-watching mission and collection of climate records, MSG-3 has a radiation sensor to measures the amount of solar and infrared energy that is reflected back into space, to better understand climate processes.
The researchers believe the study covers one of the largest and longest records of observable climate data ever assembled.
Both the Wales Office and the Department for Energy and Climate Change have trawled their records and have yet to find any written request.
The First Statistical Account of Scotland published between 1791 and 1799 records how the climate of the area was pleasant enough for "natives of the East and West Indies" to live there.
Jane Gilmour from the Guernsey Biological Records Centre says changes in land use and climate are pushing Guernsey bumblebees close to extinction.
In this latest study, the scientists looked at records from coral skeletons, ship observations and climate models to compare coral growth rates from 1880 to 2000.
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"This year is likely to be the fifth warmest worldwide since records began, " David Viner, senior climate scientists at the University of East Anglia told Reuters.
These records, carefully analyzed by scientists, reveal a mercurial climate.
And the idea of anthropogenic climate change rests on a great deal more than just tree-ring records, useful as they are for providing context to the current warming.
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According to Prof Roger Pielke Jnr, from the University of Colorado, there are big dangers in claiming that one event, be it US weather records or wildfires in Australia, are clear evidence of human-induced climate change.
And if combined with a number of palaeo-wind records gathered from around the continent, it could provide a useful tool to test climate computer models, they believe.
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