Belgium was one of the many counties that saw record temperatures in 2024
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The last years have established worryingly high temperature records, but was it the extraordinary global heat of 2023 and 2024 only a strange event to natural variability, instead of a sign of something more worrying? Some climatic scientists think so.
“From a model perspective, yes, it is the variability we expect,” said Karsten Haestein, from the University of Leipzig in Germany, at a meeting of the European Union of Geosciences in Vienna last week.
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