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Too extreme to be true? The links between extreme weather and climate change

HumanNature

In the background , the question always looms, “Are these extreme weather events caused by climate change ? ”. Julia Aylen wades through waist deep water carrying her pet dog as she is rescued from her flooded home during Hurricane Dorian in Freeport, Bahamas, Tuesday, Sept. As society evolves, extreme weather also changes.

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Whales and Lobstermen Have a Common Enemy

Union of Concerned Scientists

At the evening seafood reception that year, in a corner near the fresh oysters, a board member of the Maine Lobstermen’s Association remarked to me, “Everyone blames everything on climate change, but they blame the Right Whale on lobstering.” His remark has remained with me ever since. Sea levels are rising.

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ExxonMobil Accurately Projected Rising Temperatures While Publicly Disparaging Climate Science

Union of Concerned Scientists

The lightest lines are from the earliest projections, the lightest grey being from 1977, and the darker colors are later with the black line being from 2003. Corporate leadership was informed about advances in climate science and incorporated those advances when its scientists built their own models. Let’s dig into what Supran et al.’s