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Seema Javed Image above: Climate Central’s Climate Shift Index (CSI): It quantified the local influence of climate change on daily temperatures across the globe. Using a peer-reviewed scientific methodology, the index shows how much human-induced climate change shifted the odds of daily temperatures that people experienced locally. For example, a CSI level 3, 4 and 5 above (bright and dark red) indicates that local temperatures were at least 3 times more likely because of climate change between July 21 and 22. On July 21, several cities in Japan recorded temperatures as …

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