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Will extreme weather events get Americans to act on climate change?

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imageHurricane Sandy was a turning point on views about climate change, but the effect doesn't trump political views.Liz Roll/FEMA

Scientists are drawing a link between climate change and extreme weather events with increasing confidence.

An American Meteorological Society report, for example, studied 28 individual weather events occurring in 2013-2014...

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