When you can't explain this, how can you explain climate?

You are aware that "It is ill manners to silence a fool and cruelty to allow him to continue."?

 

Maybe if you bothered reading the source material that the news stories were based off of, you would see that data was not "fudged". Especially since all of the research was conducted by the same scientists. New technology and methods allowed them to refine their work. Here is the abstract to their revised work:

Abstract

Measurements made by microwave sounding instruments provide a multidecadal record of atmospheric temperature in several thick atmospheric layers. Satellite measurements began in late 1978 with the launch of the first Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) and have continued to the present via the use of measurements from the follow-on series of instruments, the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU). The weighting function for MSU channel 2 is centered in the middle troposphere but contains significant weight in the lower stratosphere. To obtain an estimate of tropospheric temperature change that is free from stratospheric effects, a weighted average of MSU channel 2 measurements made at different local zenith angles is used to extrapolate the measurements toward the surface, which results in a measurement of changes in the lower troposphere. In this paper, a description is provided of methods that were used to extend the MSU method to the newer AMSU channel 5 measurements and to intercalibrate the results from the different types of satellites. Then, satellite measurements are compared to results from homogenized radiosonde datasets. The results are found to be in excellent agreement with the radiosonde results in the northern extratropics, where the majority of the radiosonde stations are located.


And here is the link to the whole paper so you can peruse their conclusions:

https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/atot/26/8/2009jtecha1237_1.xml#s5

Don't rely on the news for your information. Go to the source.