Hello everyone, welcome to the March 2023, ask me anything edition of the Mindscape podcast.

I'm your host, Sean Carroll.

And it's hard to believe it's March 2023.

I know that's an eternal kind of thing.

Time keeps passing.

We got our first snowfall of the year here in Baltimore just the other day, not much

of a snowfall.

Technically, snow was falling from the sky, but it was only for a short period of time,

not that much instantly evaporated.

But it struck home the fact that it was our first and it's almost March when I'm recording

this.

And that's very, very rare.

Baltimore is not a frigid, northeast climate, technically south of the Mason-Dixon line,

even though just a bit.

But usually, as I know from living in Philadelphia for a long time, which is not that far away,

you will get snow in the winter, sometimes quite a lot.

And this year and apparently, in recent years, there's just been essentially zero snow.

Also, when I arrived here, last summer, July and August, we're brutally hot and quite

humid at the same time.

Now you may have heard the world is getting warmer.

The climate is heating up.

The fact that we've had a very warm winter and very hot summer doesn't by itself imply

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