The following long term global temperature measures
do not come from ground stations. Note that every
one of them has a warming trend.

-- The Sea Surface Temperature, or SST, record
Here, from Hadley Centre, are the global sea surface
temperatures from 1850 to 2008. Please see:
http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/
http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/te.../hadsst2gl.txt
The yearly means of these data are graphed he
http://members.cox.net/rcoppock/HadSST2gl.jpg

-- Two balloon records show this same surface level warming:
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/ratpac/index.php
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/...?name=ratpac-a
The data are found in the "year" and "surf" columns of the "GLOBE"
section of this file:
http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/r...ual-levels.txt
These very robust global yearly mean ground data are graphed he
http://members.cox.net/rcoppock/RATPAC-A-Balloon.jpg

http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/trends/tem...ll/angell.html
http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/ftp/trends...ell/global.dat
These global yearly mean ground data are graphed he
http://members.cox.net/rcoppock/Angell-Balloon.jpg

-- The satellite record, in all its current interpretations,
shows that the air near the surface is warming too.
For background on the satellite temperature proxy please see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satelli...e_measurements

The URL below is one of the more conservative records
from the University of Alabama at Huntsville.
http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/public/m.../tltglhmam_5.2
The global data are graphed he
http://members.cox.net/rcoppock/UAH-MSU.jpg

The Remote Sensing Systems Lower Troposphere (TLT) analysis
shows a 0.16K/Decade rise over the land and sea.
http://www.remss.com/data/msu/monthly_time_series/
RSS_Monthly_MSU_AMSU_Channel_TLT_Anomalies_Land_an d_Ocean_v03_2.txt
The data from 82.5N to 70S are graphed he
http://members.cox.net/rcoppock/RSS-MSU.jpg

-- The record of sea ice melting:
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/n_plot.html
http://nsidc.org/news/press/2007_sea...ssrelease.html
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/

-- The glacier retreat record:
http://nsidc.org/sotc/glacier_balance.html

-- The bore hole record:
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globa...g/pollack.html

-- Rising sea level:
http://sealevel.colorado.edu/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:R...Level_Rise.png