One think I’ve noticed about this “global temperature” stuff is that it takes ONE reading at any geological point. No notice is taken of thermal conditions higher in the atmosphere, or if a body of water is involved, thermal conditions in the depths. You are bound to get superficial results that way. Even weather is three dimensional, not two dimensional.
Dr. David Evans has a paper talking about how the measurements fail to show the Hot spot above the tropics that is predicted by the Climate Modelers resulting from CO2 caused warming...