This independent confirmation neatly side-steps some of the controversies around global warming centering on temperature measurements.
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Proxy temperature reconstructions require careful scrutiny because the proxies are not direct temperature measurements, but represent other data and factors that may or may not have a close correlation with past temperatures.
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Some sources of potential error have been known for a long time (for example, because of slight changes in their orbits, satellites do not always take temperature measurements at precisely the same time of day).
If those proxies match global temperature measurements, then it would provide independent confirmation of the global warming trend of the past couple of centuries, without being tangled up in some of the difficulties involved in normalizing the measurements.
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In particular, their assessments have depended heavily on measurements of temperature from ground-based instruments.
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The shifts in these ecosystem boundaries provide an index of global climate change, which can be observed and compared in all continents of the world, using standard sets of climatic measurements, such as precipitation and temperature.
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It relies on proxy measurements taken from things like marine fossils or ice cores that offer a physical record of past temperature.
It relies on proxy measurements taken from things such as marine fossils or ice cores that offer a physical record of past temperature.
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