> For example, warming itself has been highly nonuniform. It's not that every day, every location on earth is X degrees warmer. What is happening is this: For

> For example, warming itself has been highly nonuniform. It's not that every day, every location on earth is X degrees warmer. What is happening is this: For a location and a time somewhere on earth plot a curve depicting the probability of it's temperature. The highest point in the middle is the average, typical temperature for that day, but of course there are less probable outliers left and right, like in a normal distribution. What climate change does is a) it flattens that curve, meaning more varying temperatures, unusually hot or unusually cold days, become more likely and b) it moves that entire curve to the right, so that the average overall temperature becomes hotter, even though there are more cold outlier-days than before.