Spurious warming trends that might be considered as global warming can occur almost anywhere. (realclimate.org)
TLT has been shown to be a near perfect match trend for the only untampered surface data in the world, USCRN over the USA, thus validating the use of over TTT which is not trend matched and has a spurious warming trend. (notrickszone.com)
More importantly, the removal of dropped stations do not cause a spurious warming trend. (skepticalscience.com)