It’s possible you read this morning’s headline news about a new report that suggests Ireland is ‘20 times more likely’ to hit 33 degrees Celsius as you were heading out the door, grabbing a coat to protect yourself against the mid-July chill in the air.
If so, I can’t imagine you were the only one to roll your eyes at the latest report that seems to ask you to disregard the evidence of your senses and put your faith instead in the data. Such studies are reported on with increasing regularity, and the rate of reportage itself is often offered as a reason to disbelieve what your eyes and skin tell you and get in line with the science. If we’re all talking about the problem (climate change), how can you be so out of the loop as to doubt its existence, I suppose the thinking would go.
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