So, umhh, NOAA is saying that they have collected gazillions of temperature readings, collected by untold numbers of people of varying reliability world-wide, using a whole bunch of measuring devices of uncertain calibration, and that having gathered, processed and averaged that data, they are going to attach some significance to a difference which on the Kelvin scale amounts to roughly 1 part in 30,000?
If in fact that’s what they’re claiming, they’ve forfeited any right they might have had to call themselves scientists.
And that’s assuming they haven’t fudged the data as they’ve been shown to do so many times in the past.
I understand that for the past ?? years (not sure how many) the temps are recorded by satellite. These are incredibly accurate (according to them) and are calibrated daily. The data prior to that is very questionable and has been adjusted and estimated using a lot of very shaky assumptions. The accurate readings closely correspond to the 15 yrs or so without any warming.