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How Scientists Are So Confident They Know What’s Causing This Insane Weather Mike Pearl © Provided by The Daily Beast Nathan Howard/Getty
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 dozens died.
The professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington told The Daily Beast that this past week’s monstrous stretch which topped out at a blistering 108 degrees on Monday was “so outside the range of previous hot spells in Seattle that it really stretches the credibility of anyone suggesting it is simply natural variability.”