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To Daniel Pauly and Rashid Sumalia receive The Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement award 2023.

Summer is going out with a bang in California, as a record heatwave is shattering all-time record high temperatures across the state.

NOAA’s ‘New Normals’ Climate Data Raises Questions About What’s Normal Does using 30-year weather averages mask rapid global warming? By Bob Berwyn and Matt deGrood May 15, 2021 A bicyclist rides along a flooded street as a powerful storm moves across Southern California on Feb. 17, 2017 in Sun Valley, California. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images Related Share this article When climatologists started standardizing global weather data about 100 years ago, they didn’t know that heat-tra...