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Weather is not climate though.

• eurasiantiger 4y ago
  It really isn’t. People commonly think that the climate warming by a degree means that the weather warms up by a degree. However, there’s a good 100 miles of air above us, and that mass of air warming by a degree means that it can now retain a LOT more humidity before it starts precipitating as rain. This means coastal areas get drier and hotter, while mountaineous areas get much more rainfall (and more of it as water instead of snow), as well as flooding, mudslides, etc.
• sangnoir 4y ago
  Yes, but do you think many parts of the world setting new heat records year after year is just weather, or climate-related? The point is moot,because the right wing channels are downplaying[1] the current extreme weather like it's no big deal - not just climate-change 1. https://twitter.com/MrMatthewTodd/status/1548353724086530049 https://twitter.com/MrMatthewTodd/status/1548353724086530049