In the Daily Mail article David Rose quoted John Bates as saying that “They had good data from buoys. And they threw it out and “corrected” it by using the bad data from ships.” This statement is patently false. Not only did NOAA not “throw out” any buoy data, they actually gave buoys about 7 times more weight than less reliable ship data in their new record. And as discussed in the linked paper, relying on the higher quality buoy data removed some bias in recent years due to the changing composition of the global shipping fleet.

http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00006.1 (literally this is where they show that the buoys were given 7 times more weight, Bates is lying Richard!)

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/1/e1601207 (showing how buoy data improves the temperature record)