No true scientist would label such a temperature variation ordinate as an "anomally", since variation is the norm in both climate and weather, and has been forever. The only documented state within the topic of world temperature is constant change.
First, I apologize for not citing the source.
I tend to re-host graphics so they cannot disappear after I link them.
Here is the original link
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.A2.lrg.gif
Here is the report its from
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/2007/
The weather gurus speak of “anomalies” ~