Comment on On the adjustments to the HadSST3 data set by Doug Allen

John Kennedy,
Thanks for your posts here. Whatever adjustments are made to any temperature construction, I hope the raw data is always available for comparison. I have a general question about adjustments and confirmation bias. I read many skeptics comments and even articles which allege or show what appears to be a systematic bias to adjust recent temperatures upward, adjust past temperatures downward or smooth temperature fluxuations so as to reduce natural variability. Such adjustments, many skeptics allege, is to make recent warming seem more pronounced and more predominantly a GHG forcing. These comments usually refer to GISTEMP reconstructions, but sometimes NOAA or Hadcru. Are you aware of these allegations and do you agree that most of the adjustments to the temperature record have had the effect of making global warming appear more pronounced as the skeptics allege? I wonder if confirmation bias may not be at work in some of the adjustments and also in the quickness that some skeptics cry foul.