I also show that actual surface measurements give a far different view of surface temps than the published global temp records. (judithcurry.com)
However, these are not actual surfaces in real space. (sciencedaily.com)
I don't think these new results will in any case affect the yearly mean temperature grid calculations, as they depend on actual surface station temperature records — which both we and Steig et al. used — and not on reconstructed gridded data. (climateaudit.org)