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Catastrophic Weather: The New Normal

Ferocious blizzards and cataclysmic cyclones. Welcome to our planet, circa 2011–a planet that, like some unruly adolescent, has decided to test the boundaries. For two centuries now we’ve been burning fossil fuel that pours carbon into the atmosphere; for two decades we’ve been ignoring the increasingly impassioned warnings of scientists. And now we’re getting pinched.