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How Scientists Are So Confident They Know What’s Causing This Insane Weather

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The doubters have run out of room—events have overtaken any shred of sane skepticism.

Dale Durran just endured a historic heatwave in Seattle, and perhaps more than most residents, he’s got good reason to be confident climate change had something to do with the regional madness that proved especially extreme next door, in Oregon, where

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