Anyway, I have two simple questions for you.
1) If the surface temperature record is SO bad due to loss of thermometers or siting problems, then why do skeptics think it's good enough to show global cooling over the past decade?
2) If the record is SO bad, then why does it show, consistently, the effects of major El Nino and La Nina episodes? (I even had to fix the missing image in my profile, point #4, for this!)
First, no one is saying that the adjusted data is worthless; it is just uncertain at the discrete levels necessary to show small changes for use as extrapolative values. The cooling we now experience is not really colder than any part of the record but the trend remaining toward an accelerated warming in lockstep with seemingly inexorable increases in CO2 requires a continuing shift in start-present graphs to remain obvious.
The measurements of El Nino, La Nina are separated from the global set have their own divergences.
I never started with a full table, I’m just peeing on it out of disgust with the childish behavior displayed by supposed wise men.
If just one researcher could show an unequivocal setpoint where the global temperature ought to be, at least we would have a starting point.