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What Climate Change Looks Like

One of the faces of a warming planet - The Rim Fire, California, August, 2013 (Image: U.S. Forest Service)
One of the faces of a warming planet – The Rim Fire, California, August, 2013 (Image: U.S. Forest Service)

The last few weeks has been full of news of extreme weather events from across the world. One of the best sources for keeping up to speed on the Anthropocene’s new climate ‘normals’ is Faun Kime’s great blog site, which includes weekly pictorial updates on weather disasters unfolding around the world.

Last week the extreme weather news hit our family in a way that really resonated. No, not one of our increasingly regular Australian extreme weather events, but something happening on the other side of the world, in a place we had visited a few months ago and fallen in love with: Yosemite National Park in California, USA.

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