Most people will benefit from stepping back and looking at the record of actual temperature measurements. (nybooks.com)
I think you can also see the fundamental problem with taking that smoothed data set and just throwing it in with actual temperature measurements with all of their year - to - year and decade - to - decade variations. (thefederalist.com)
IF you were averaging actual temperature measurements, this would be true, but the gridcell methods convert temperatures to anomalies. (climateaudit.org)