Non-CRU sources for a global temperature record?
stonemetal: Nasa has one
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/But then there may be problems with that as well but they at least seem to be playing fairly.
http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0811-nasa_snafu.htmlThere is also the National climatic data center
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html