Raw global temperature records

[toughluck]

It appears from news on the Web, that the Met office released the 'raw data' for 1500 stations.

However I am confused, as the Met office itself mentions that it is a 'subset of the full HadCRUT3 record of global temperatures'. And 'This subset shows that global average land temperatures have risen over the last 150 years and is very similar to the temperature rises shown by the complete data set'
www.metoffice.gov.uk/climatechange/science/monitoring/subsets.html

This makes me believe that this is NOT the raw data for the individual stations, but it is simply a subset of the same adjusted data. Basically useless for checking the global temperature adjustments used by the Met office. (So no difference in global temperature increase should be expected.. so this is not 'proof' of anything..)
The entire data set is in this zip file:
www.metoffice.gov.uk/climatechange/science/monitoring/reference/All.zip

Note that they also released fractions of the data as csv files for the USA and the UK, but the USA file is full of errors (columns out of place, commas inside columns, etc.)
newsbusters.org/blogs/terry-trippany/2009/12/08/met-global-warming-u-s-csv-data-dump-erroneous

So what do you think, is this the raw data?

The reason I ask is because of the observed 'adjustments' of data like such as an example here:
wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/08/the-smoking-gun-at-darwin-zero/

I would like to obtain global raw data and recreate the global temperature myself.

[hairball]

www.metoffice.gov.uk/climatechange/science/monitoring/subsets.html#q2

Says:
". Are the data that you are providing the “value-added” or the “underlying” data?

The data that we are providing is the database used to produce the global temperature series. Some of these data are the original underlying observations and some are observations adjusted to account for non climatic influences, for example changes in observations methods.

What about the underlying data?

Underlying data are held by the national meterological services and other data providers and such data have in many cases been released for research purposes under specific licences that govern their usage and distribution."

So, no it isn't the raw data, also they can't spell meteorological.

And the hockey stick looks more like a spatula now:

[sigurdur]

The error bars are basically saying that the temp could be flat.

Now...isn't that an interesting graph?