text: But heres the problem. As Fig. 1 shows, until World War II, Anchorage was a very sleepy village of a few thousand. Since then the population has skyrocketed. But the homogeneity adjustment does not match this in any sense. The homogeneity adjustment is a straight line (albeit one with steps ...why steps? ... but I digress). The adjustment starts way back in 1926 ... why would the 1926 Anchorage temperature need any adjustment at all? And how does this adjust for UHI?