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Of An Instrument Temperature Record With Complete Global
Coverage###################### CORRECTION: The original version
of this post incorrectly stated that GISS used HADSST2 SST
anomaly data for the period from 1880 to 1981. This was
incorrect. I know GISS uses the HADISST dataset. Must be my age.
I’ve corrected the error in the text. It does not change the
overall message. OPENING NOTE: This is not a post about the
accuracy of the instrument temperature record. It also is not
about the methods researchers employ to infill missing data or
to reconstruct sea surface temperatures. This post is a
complaint about the portrayal of compete global coverage of
temperature measurements. In his post “What NASA has to Say
about Global Temperatures,” Brett Anderson at the AccuWeather
Global Warming Blog provided a link to a NASA/Goddard Multimedia
video “2009 Global Temperature Package: Year Tied as Second
Hottest”. NASA/Goddard Multimedia describes the v