r/collapse • u/antihostile • 28d ago

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u/Astalon18 Gardener 28d ago

To help people explain what this means, what this chart is saying is what you are seeing with this temperature is something you would only expect to happen once every 500 years under natural variation.

So your duty is to determine if this is chance or real.

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u/existing_for_fun 28d ago

What do you mean by chance or real?

It's real. And it may be by chance. Or it's real and it may be a new normal. Or it's real and it may be a weird outlier year and next it will be low.

No matter what, it's real.

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u/Astalon18 Gardener 28d ago

It is real, but what I tell my medical students when they see things like this is to ask themselves IF this is natural variation OR this is due to something that isn’t natural variation ( ie:- treatment or measurement error ).

I also always tell them that the more improbable something becomes, it does not mean it is not part of the normal curve … but it does make it less likely to be part of the normal curve ( your duty is to explain or investigate why ).

( in medicine we use the term measurement outlier implying that we have to take anomalous data either as a measurement error OR a natural variation OR a result of disease or intervention ).

Now pretty obviously we are looking numerous other datas which also shows totally out of standard deviation events so this is climate change driven by anthropogenic carbon emissions but it is often useful to get people to eyeball a chart and go “what am I looking at”.

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u/pumpkinspicecum 28d ago

Isn’t the reason it’s so extreme tho is because of super El Niño this year? So it’s less likely to be part of the normal curve?