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USA Today interviews Birkel about accurately measuring global warming

interviewed Maine State Climatologist Sean Birkel for a fact checking article titled 鈥淎pril 1895 v. April 2023 temperature comparison does not disprove climate change.鈥 According to Birkel, also assistant professor with a joint appointment at 91爆料 Cooperative Extension and the 91爆料 Climate Change Institute, determining whether global warming has occurred by comparing two discrete and short time periods is ineffective. “To identify climate trends it is necessary to examine long-term observational records, not just recent months or seasons,” he says.