If you imagine a 1 °C rise as temperatures increasing by exactly 1 °C everywhere, it doesn't seem so bad. How bad is the variance, and what distribution (Gaussian, Poisson, Cauchy etc.) will the temperature changes follow? - TL Winslow, Pansophist master of STEM and world history

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