claim: satellites confirmed measurements from ground stations show a considerable, and naturally-occurring, global brightening from 1983-2001 ( Pinker et al., 2005 ).
evidence: The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe ( WMAP ), originally known as the Microwave Anisotropy Probe ( MAP ), was a spacecraft operating from 2001 to 2010 which measured temperature differences across the sky in the cosmic microwave background ( CMB ) – the radiant heat remaining from the Big Bang.