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not understand the trend or what is happening over a prolong time, but when you look at the devastating weather events over the past year or so, how much is climate change affecting these weather catastrophes we are seeing play out? there are surprises in store when it comes to the impacts of climate change, and one of the surprises we re seeing is this very dramatic increase in extreme weather events, the unprecedented heat waves and droughts and wildfires and super floods, that northwest heat dome that we saw this summer by some estimates was a 1 in 20,000-year event. we shouldn t be seeing things like this. even accounting for climate change it was estimated to be a 1 in a 1,000-year event. what that tells you is the climate models we re using to diagnose the impacts of climate change on these extreme weather events if anything are underestimating the impact
in the atmosphere. you ve got the twisting. you put those together and you get these record outbreaks like we ve seen in recent years and like we are seeing right now. yes, to that point, when you look at this past year, we have seen a staggering number of deadly weather events. what is the pattern telling you, because i think if we just look at a singular event people may not understand the trend or what is happening over a prolonged time. but when you look at the number of devastating weather-related events the past year or so, how much is climate change affecting these weather catastrophies we are seeing play out? there are surprises in store when it comes to the impacts of climate change, and one of the surprises we are seeing is this very dramatic increase in extreme weather events. the unprecedented heat waves and drouts and wildfires and soup sfloods. that northwest heat dome we saw by some estimates was a 1 in