Dear Mr. Raines:

I am sending you this card to second Accuracy in Media's suggestion that the New York Times catch up with the science and quit basing its stories about global warming on surface temperature data that are less accurate as a measure of the global temperature than the satellite data published monthly by the Earth System Science Center of the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

There is no longer any excuse for ignoring the satellite data. They have been recorded for 23 years. They correlate closely with surface and balloon readings where coverage is good, but they have the great advantage of also covering vast areas of the globe where surface and balloon data are sparse. Climate modelers have had to admit that there should be no marked divergence in trends in the surface and upper-air temperature. For you to stick to the former and ignore the latter to hype the global warming scare is wrong. Fix it!