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\"We know that this is having impacts, said NASA Climate Scientist and GISS Director Gavin Schmidt. “We know that it is inducing heat waves. We know that it is leading to more intense rainfall, we're seeing that in many places in the world. And we know it's a contributing factor to the growth of wildfires in areas that have been affected by the temperatures.\"

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Data supporting this temperature analysis comes from tens of thousands of meteorological stations, along with instruments on ships and buoys.

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