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Sometimes weird weather isn’t due to climate change

The climate is the clothes you wear in your closet, said a climate scientist. “The climate is basically the clothes you have in your closet,” Deepti Singh, aclimate scientist at Washington State University said. ” weird weather does factor in, but isn’t as important to the average as more common conditions,” she added. “We’ve kind of put the climate on steroids,” Singh further said.

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It was the hottest year on record

The UK’s Met Office has predicted that there is a good chance of the average global surface temperature passing the 1.5C mark in 2024. “It is the first time we are forecasting” this, said Nick Dunstone, a climate scientist at the Met Office who led the work. The warmest year on record in the world so far was recorded in June.

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