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Climate change is worse, US politics more polarized, phones are bigger, computers are faster, etc. But if someone went to sleep in 2013 and woke up in 2023, it might take them a little bit to notice the changes.

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Heat dome wasn’t a word in 2013. Fire weather meant a dry day, not a tornado forming inside of a wild fire.

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Heat dome and heat island have been used for a couple decades in Arizona.

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It did in parts of Canada. America just wasn’t paying attention.

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Yeah, it’s worse now. But it’s not super dramatic.

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