This, in turn, might help to explain different temperature lag conclusions.

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The most recent spikes in the Earth's temperature are no different, long term, than the peaks one finds beside deep valleys on the Earth's surface.

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Venus is a twin to the Earth in terms of size and mass, yet has evolved in a very different direction, with a surface temperature hotter than a kitchen oven and a choking mixture of noxious gases for an atmosphere.

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IPCC's report, which presents best estimates of the rise in temperature between 2000 and 2100 for several different emission scenarios.

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In addition, the PC image had a slightly different color temperature to the PS3 images, which may have swayed our impressions somewhat.

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The iOS app initially shows just the core temperature, humidity and hours of sunlight in different sections, with its namesake haze effect giving a clue as to whether conditions are trending up or down.

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Metop's suite of instruments retrieve a range of data - from the temperature and water content of the different layers in the atmosphere to the speed of the winds whipping across the ocean, and from the health of the ozone layer to the spread of volcanic ash plumes across the sky.

BBC: Weather satellites and the gathering storm

One of the strange things we learned during our hands-on was that SLI is complicated by NVIDIA's GPU Boost technology, which causes individual cards in the same chassis to run at different clock speeds depending on their load and temperature.

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