Heavy snow and difficult travel expected again, heaviest snow in southern Minnesota

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The planet has warmed past the 1.5 degrees Celsius pre-industrial normal temperature. 

Final confirmation on 2024 being the hottest year on record is expected from NOAA and the European Union, but the effects of climate change on a 

 is being felt from wild fires in California to the snowless winters in Minnesota. 

“We’re certainly seeing a lot of dangerous climate change now,” said 

Jeff Masters with the Yale Climate Connection

. “Winters have been the most dramatically affected season of all the seasons. They’re so much warmer now, less ice, less snow.”

But there are solutions, he added. “It’s the clean energy revolution.” 

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Another year, another global temperature record. MPR meteorologist Paul Huttner talks with Jeff Masters with Yale Climate Connections about 2024 being the hottest year on record. And what we can do about it.  

As Earth sets temperature record, expert says solutions to ‘dangerous climate change’ exist

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