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"textContent": "You take a physically nonsensical construct (averaging an intensive quantity), feed it with corrections whose systematic errors are inadequately quantified, hide these errors behind a narrow 95% band—and then sell the whole thing as a highly precise, indisputable “global temperature” that supposedly describes the climate.",
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