It's looks like an algorithm to me, Horn. Are you a mathematician or something? 

Don't the satellites feed into this? Radiosondes? Ocean buoys? This stuff about "massaging" the raw data  is sort of familiar to me because of the dust up over the "hiatus".  

This is why you're reading Hansen, et al (2010)? That's the article that was linked through the NASA  climate change page, right?  And yes, we're all getting warmer, and smokier.