So; the satellite record now agrees with the surface record - the earth is experiencing record recorded temperatures. It just took a little while to catch up. Notice that Roy Spencer doesn't even mention this fact in his blog.. It's as if the UAH record warmth doesn't exist. The reason, of course, is that it doesn't suit him to acknowledge it.

http://www.drroyspencer.com

Instead, he focuses on two things, his fiddling with the satellite output, to show cooler land temperatures (Oh yes he has, read all about it on his blog) and a complete disregard for Berkeley Earth's work, still trying to blame the record land warmth on the old chestnut of increased urban warmth. With a huge dataset, far bigger than Watts' analysis (Spencer draws upon this) Berkeley Earth laid this one to rest a few years ago, but Watts the denier still clings onto the urban heat island being the sole reason for land temperatures having increased rapidly and Spencer regurgitates the inaccuracies.

http://berkeleyearth.org/summary-of-findings/

'Berkeley Earth methodology applied to the full dataset and the
rural subset; the difference of these is consistent with no urban
heating effect over the period 1950 to 2010, with a slope of -0.10 ±
0.24/100yr (95% confidence).'

Who actually believes Watts and Spencer here?? Certainly 99.99% of published scientists certainly don't.