re: #55 Aceofwhat?

On the contrary. Take a 100-year plot. Each year is the mean of 365 days. So we experience something on the order of a 20-day outlier and you think it’ll affect the trend of a graph based on yearly means of 36,500 days?

It is you, i believe, who does not understand the difference between moving an average by an infinitesimal amount and moving the trend.

Exactly, one year data is one year’s data point, whatever adjective one uses to describe it, your comment that it has “absolutely no influence” is incorrect. Take a look at the various Global Average Temperature sets and you will most certainly see a difference year to year and decade to decade.