From this index the researchers concluded that the winters on Hirta are getting shorter and warmer, and that may be because of climate change.

ECONOMIST: Evolution and climate change

But, realizing that local temperatures everywhere are so very variable and much more extreme than the global changes that they were saying would devastate the planet, it would be hard to convince anyone long term that the planet was continually getting warmer.

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