There's a
new paper out that shows that, contrary to what you'll read on denier blogs,
NOAA's latest version of global sea surface temperature is probably the best and most accurate around. It's the closest to observations, when you compare it to measurements from moored and floating buoys, Argo floats and radiometer-based satellite records of sea surface temperature.
Umpteen denier protests
You might remember how climate hoax conspiracy theorists, professional disinformers and other deniers
protested loud and long when NOAA scientists
published a paper about the revised NOAA temperature data. The US House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, led by arch denier Lamar Smith, harassed NOAA endlessly
with subpoena after subpoena. A lot of the changes to the NOAA temperature record were a result of
a new version of the global sea surface temperature data set, known as Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature, or ERSST v4. The papers on that were published in February 2015 (see
below). The protests only came, though, in June 2015 when there was
a paper by Karl et al. That paper pushed denier buttons because it challenged the so-called "hiatus". You can read about
Karl15 here, and the paper itself
is here.
