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>>6488954
>temperature anomaly, a statistical measure (not an actual physical thing!)
Are you stupid or something? The Temperature Anomaly is a physical thing as any temperature measurement. It's just a measurement how much hotter or colder any given year (or multi-year average) is compared to an arbitrary year in the past. It's maps trivially to the actual temperature measurement by just adding the reference year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_temperature_record#Absolute_temperatures_v._anomalies
And the PDO is just the surface temperature anomaly of the pacific. Obviously, if it gets hotter everywhere it gets hotter in the pacific, so obviously, the data of the pacific temperature anomaly (which is half the world anyway) will more or less mirror the global temperature anomaly. The PDO index on the other hand, is the PDO minus the global surface anomaly, showing only the oscillation of the pacific compared to global average temperatures. I do not know which the people who made the graph used, since it is not sourced and you didn't provide any and it may well have no footing in reality whatsoever.
Also, the time-integral still sounds arcane and/or stupid, adding a temperature and a number of things together to produce a single graph line is stupid and is ripe for manipulation and anyway, i see no way that could actually produces the graph shown, see here >>6488794
So, until you provide some source or at least explain how they got to that graph i'll juts post my own graph that shows there's no correlation between sunspost and temperature that'll be just as valid as the thing you posted.