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"There's this atmospheric warming that tends to reduce the intensity, and there's sea surface temperature warming, which tends to increase the intensity," atmospheric scientist Daniel Gilford of nonprofit Climate Central told AFP.

"Even with adaptive optics, the photonic lantern was so sensitive to the wavefront fluctuations that I had to develop a new data processing technique to filter out the remaining atmospheric turbulence."

“I would not get that job today till I had the American Meteorological Society seal or a degree in meteorology or atmospheric sciences,” Coleman said.

Last week, an atmospheric river storm hit Los Angeles with scattered downpours, fears of flooding and powerful winds.

The net result is that emissions are likely to increase for another decade before stabilizing, which means atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases will climb through the end of the century.