With a summer of extreme weather records dominating the news, meteorologists and scientists say records like these give a glimpse of the big picture: a warming planet caused by climate change.
It’s a picture that comes in the vibrant reds and purples representing heat on daily weather maps online, in newspapers and on television.
Still, some local specifics are striking: Death Valley has flirted this summer with the hottest temperature in modern history, though that 134 degree Fahrenheit record is in dispute. Think of the individual statistics as brush strokes in a painting of the world’s climate, Cornell University climate scientist Natalie Mahowald said. Don’t fixate on any specific number.
Weather won’t worsen each year and that should not become a common expectation, but it will intensify over the long run, she said.
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