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Summer 2023 was the hottest on record – yes, it's climate change, but don't call it 'the new normal'

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Summer 2023 was the hottest on record – yes, it's climate change, but don't call it 'the new normal'

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Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · 3 years ago

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There’s nothing normal about the blast furnace heat much of the world has been experiencing, as an atmospheric scientist explains.

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It’s more that things haven’t stabilized because people are still dumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere:

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