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Old 26-06-2009, 08:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Argonavis View Post
"excessively large" means it doesn't show the few tenths of a degree smoothed "average" temperature variations to a sufficiently scary scale?
Yes I agree with you.

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If you would like to draw trend lines, they are down.
I gather from the graphs that multiple measurements are taken per year.
Since the graphs provides up to date data and is inherently noisy (mainly due to seasonal variations), a moving average is not being used to calculate the temperature anomalies on the Y axis.

The anomalies are therefore calculated using a baseline value.
The obvious question is how has the baseline value been determined?

Steven
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