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First published on ClimateProgress.org, a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, which was recently named one of Time magazine’s Top 25 blogs of 2010.
It’s official: 2012 was the most extreme year ever recorded for weather. As a devastating drought, destructive wildfires, multiple severe heat waves, and destructive storms pounded the country last year, more Americans woke up to the reality of our changing climate.
“You look out the window and you see climate change in action,” said Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research this summer. “This is the way it gets manifested.”
Indeed, as the ever-talented Peter Sinclair documents in his latest video compilation, 2012 was the year that climate change got real:
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