With due respect, I consider that it is completely and absolutely inappropriate to present any temperature statistic that combines land and SST data. (climateaudit.org)
In a way we are: it's like someone plucked a value off a graph from 2030 and stuck it on a graph of present temperatures. (apnews.com)
Arctic summer air temperatures were 4 - 5 °C above present temperatures for millennia during the previous interglacial period. (globalwarming.org)