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		ZoomerCretin on July 8, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why North America's killer heat scares me Both events are caused by the jet stream changing its usual patterns due to climate change. Your strawman is a poor one.

firestarter223 on July 8, 2021 [–]

I guess no matter what happens, it is always due to climate change.

In general I think local records are to be expected, because of variance. Maybe they become more frequent because of changing jet streams or whatever, but you can not go in the other direction and claim every record is because of climate change.

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