If the data prior to 1970 is deemed inaccurate, than the segment of sea surface temperatures represents only 52 years. That is such a ridiculously small segment of the total data as to be negligible.
(Since the dawn of the Paleozoic, 0.0000086%, and since humans (roughly 4 million years) 0.0013% of the data, 0.43% since the last ice age (12,000 years ago)).
For all practical purposes, a mere point on a line, and not enough to set any meaningful trends, hardly reflective of a significant portion of the total data set.