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Jumpin said:
numberwang said:

The US has by far the best temperature record on earth

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Gotta love ironic humour.

What region has better temp records?

The main problem with the "adjustments" is that it creates a hockey stick temp graph based solely on adjustments, not data. For some reason all temp adjustments are a one way ticket, always cooling the past to increase the "rising trend". What about the opposite, the urban heat effect? Many historic temp stations in urban areas will have an artificial increase by 1-3°F because of growing cities.

The annual mean air temperature of a city with 1 million people or more can be 1.8–5.4°F (1–3°C) warmer than its surroundings. In the evening, the difference can be as high as 22°F (12°C).

https://www.epa.gov/heat-islands

Iceland, Reykjavik, original data. We have the 1930s warm period, followed by the "New Ice Age" and the consequent rebound that capped around the year 2000 (just like the US).

Again "adjusted" to create a hockey stick by cooling old data.

https://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/show_station.cgi?id=620040300000&dt=1&ds=02

https://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/show_station.cgi?id=620040300000&dt=1&ds=12