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Arguing with Thermometers

2012 single by Enter Shikari

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ16961912
Source-derived summary

"Arguing with Thermometers" is a single by British rock band Enter Shikari from their 2012 album A Flash Flood of Colour. The song was included on a 5-track EP released via iTunes, along with a music video and remixes.

Music video

The music video stars the members of the band working in a newsroom; Reynolds is the newsreader, Rolfe the weatherman and Clewlow and Batten operate cameras. The band leave the studio and then are seen performing outside by a road and interviewing businessmen on the street. The video was released on the band's official YouTube page on 14 January 2012. The video was directed and edited by Raul Gonzo.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Arguing with Thermometers” as 2012 single by Enter Shikari. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2012-01-09. The account is most persuasive where Arguing, Thermometers and single can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as 2012 single by Enter Shikari. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16961912. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from Arguing with Thermometers” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.