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"From an ethical standpoint, banks and investment firms should no longer be financing new fossil fuel infrastructure," University of Pennsylvania climatologist Dr. Michael E. Mann, who was not involved in the report, told Salon.

University of Pennsylvania climatologist Dr. Michael E. Mann observed that there is at least an objective way in which Harris indisputably "won" those exchanges — her statements were based on facts, while Trump's were not.

The climatologist stresses the role scientists can play in spreading fact-based information.

David Zierden, Florida’s state climatologist, said there are numerous factors that could be at play, including the delayed onset of La Niña, shifting monsoon patterns in West Africa, and Saharan dust activity.

Indeed, the tool’s findings are probably conservative, according to Bill Patzert, a retired climatologist from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada-Flintridge.