Outright fraud by GISS?: Are we all OK with warmists blatantly cooking the books in order to get their desired warming trend?

Jennifer Marohasy » Cooking Books for Hot Summers

Interestingly recent “corrections down” to historical global temperatures by the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, GISS, have been concentrated in this period [1910 to 1945], Figure 1. The net effect of the adjustments has been to generate a more smoothly increasing global temperature since 1880, and reduce a warming blip that occurred in the late 1930s and early 1940s.