It’s unfortunate (in a sense) that while temperatures were extreme this year (warmest in the instrumental record in many places), most of the US and Europe were spared so many will feel that this level of warming is no big deal.

Image from Robert Rohde

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 The problem is that many of us didn’t experience it so we think “this is fine”.

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