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Jonathan Winter Quoted in the Wall Street Journal

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From the Wall Street Journal:

"The record global temperatures that spawned heavy rainfall, disastrous floods and raging wildfires in 2023 will likely continue in 2024, according to the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service.

The service is the first analysis to declare—after months of speculation—that 2023 was the hottest year since record-keeping began in the mid-1800s [...]

"We have a warmer ocean, so that can give storms more fuel, more water vapor and more liquid to work with" as the ocean water evaporates into the atmosphere, Winter said."

 

Read the full article here.