I don't see it as cherry picking when it's ostensibly a objective record of temperature data for the time period. My question is, where'd the .5 degree increase go when they recreated the same data record in 2016?
So, was this data excluded in later data analyses?
Huh? I'm not sure the blogger referred to any other temperature data except to say, "The data don’t fit your theory? No problem. Change the data! That is how the global warming alarmists operate."
You'll note the caption on this image from NASA's report makes the definitive, non-qualified, assertion that global surface temperatures rose by 0.6 degrees C from 1880 to 1940 and 0.5 degrees C from 1880 to 1950. There are no references to competing temperature data. So, did, or did not, NASA state, definitively, that temperatures rose by these amounts in 1987? And, if they did, what happened to that assertion in 2016?
These aren't hard questions.