While it often feels like the weather is a chaotic spin of the dice, the long-term data tells a consistent story. In this episode of Whimsical Wavelengths, Dr. Jeffrey Zurek sits down with Jared Rennie, a research meteorologist from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), to bridge the gap between today’s forecast and the decades of data defining our changing climate.

We pull back the curtain on how scientists "take the temperature of the Earth," the rigorous peer-review process behind global datasets, and why the most important part of climate science happens at the kitchen table.

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