Last Monday, the 3rd of July, was globally the warmest day on record. Today in the Netherlands we are experiencing the most severe summer storm recorded in over 120 years, and the first summer storm ever to be classified as ‘very severe’. That just fits the long term pattern of increasingly extreme weather events. Meanwhile, arm-chair climate change deniers still think ‘climate’ and ‘weather’ are the same thing, while actual experts grow increasingly concerned about global climatic change.
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And no; it’s not just because of El Niño. See e.g. https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/05/world/wmo-el-nino-warmer-weather-climate-intl-hnk/index.html