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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
That's even worse.
Most of the individual years fall well with in the standard deviation.
I have a feeling the "control years" would look a lot different if the unusually colder early 80s and mount pinatubo years were excluded.
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Uh... the 80's were hotter than the 70's on average.
Pinatubo. likewise, only cooled the Earth for a few years. The 90's were hotter than the 80's, on average, which were hotter than the 70's, on average... which... let's be honest, the 70's were slightly cooler than the 60's, I think, but the 90's onward are all hotter than the decades before them.... and hotter than anything we've experienced during recorded history.
Want hotter, you have to go back to 120,000 years ago, when temperatures were 4 degrees higher and ice melt gave us sea levels several meters higher than today.