All You’ve Ever Wanted To Know About Anomalies But Were Afraid To Ask

A lightweight look at how we go about deriving temperature anomalies and what they actually mean in plain English

Oct 13, 2023

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This is one of those ideas that came to me whilst wrestling with the duvet at 3am. This does not purport to be an exhaustive list of tricks, nor does it go into any kind of depth, but it does summarise what I have seen with mine eyes over the years. I shall use plain, unbuttered English where possible…

We shall start straight in with a famous person (Professor Brian Cox) holding up a graph during a question and answer session on a high-profile TV chat show called QandA. The graph was used to crush Australian senator-elect Malcolm Roberts:

Here’s the very latest incarnation of that same graph:

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