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 I don't think you understand how that data is gathered. There is so much error and interpretive bias, not only in the simple generation of the numbers, but then assigning them to time,  And then comparing with current measurements. There are vast areas of the earth where temperature has never been measured with any reliability and therefore your global trends would be made completely insignificant if there was data from those that varied or differed at all in relation to the current measurements.