I don't know how they came up with this sentence. I'm sure it is true in some sense of the word "true." But just look at the data: https://judithcurry.com/20

I don't know how they came up with this sentence. I'm sure it is true in some sense of the word "true." But just look at the data: https://judithcurry.com/2014/07/07/understanding-adjustments-to-temperature-data/ https://judithcurry.com/2014/07/07/understanding-adjustments... Perhaps OP is talking about some older data before the cutoff of this graph. Edit: the Guardian article posted elsewhere shows the opposite: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/feb/08/no-climate-conspiracy-noaa-temperature-adjustments-bring-data-closer-to-pristine https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97... Amusingly, the Guardian illustration is credited to the same person who wrote the article I cite: Zeke Hausfather. Welcome to the world of climate statistics. When bar charts drive trillions of dollars in public policy, they tend to get pretty wonky, pretty fast...