Don’t scoff when you hear an old timer say: “Summers are hot- ter than they used to be.” This remark could once have been classed with “Stairs are steeper than they used to be,” and “Young people are wilder than when I was a boy.”

But today an impressive number of scientists, both old and young, are convinced that the oldtimers are right.

 

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