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Climate change is relentless: Seemingly small shifts have big consequences

  • Written by Kevin Trenberth, Distinguished Scholar, National Center for Atmospheric Research
imageExcess energy has warmed the oceans, building up fuel for cyclones.NASA Earth Observatory/Joshua Stevens

Climate change has been accumulating slowly but relentlessly for decades. The changes might sound small when you hear about them – another tenth of a degree warmer, another centimeter of sea level rise – but seemingly small changes...

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