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Hot records

Kevin Cowtan explains the difference between two terms we use quite often, “weather” and “climate,” and what breaking records for temperature can teach us about each.

Source: Denial101x (a MOOC from UQx and edX)

Credit: Hot records, originally published in UQx Denial101x Making Sense of Climate Science Denial, 2017 (CC-BY-SA 4.0)

Curated by Lea Rekow for BifrostOnline
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