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Ground zero for climate change: the tropics were first to feel the definite effects in the 1960s

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imagePlaces near the equator, with less natural climate variation, were the first to see humanity's climate fingerprint.Husond/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY

Over the past century our climate has changed as greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere have increased. Today we see the impacts of climate change in increasing numbers of extreme heat records wh...

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