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... Day to day and year to year changes in weather patterns will continue to produce some unusually cold days and nights, and winters and summers, even as the climate warms. Climate change means not only changes in globally averaged surface temperature, but also changes in atmospheric circulation, in the size and patterns of natural climate variations, and in local weather.
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  • climate variations
  • north atlantic
  • surface temperature
  • natural climate
  • global warming

  • ocean circulation
  • atmospheric circulation
  • record low
  • record highs
  • globally averaged

  • low temperatures
  • polar regions
  • averaged surface
  • recent cold
  • warming tilts

  • change means
  • weather patterns


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