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Re:January 2020 warmest on record: EU climate service by adj83 on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @05:20AM (#22245541)
"Across a band of countries stretching from Norway to Russia, temperatures were an unprecedented 6C above the same 30-year benchmark, "

if you have that sort of deviation its hard to make meaningful statements about the longer term changes, it seems to me

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Re:January 2020 warmest on record: EU climate service by 1propionyl on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @05:23AM (#22245551)
An increase in variation is by definition an extremely statistically significant change in behavior. Most families of distributions have two dimensions: mean and variance.

And not just under expectation but in general.

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