Don't call the extreme heat, flooding, and wildfires 'the new normal'

• The climate crisis is causing a "new abnormal" characterized by more frequent and intense disasters.
• How media and politicians frame extreme weather shapes how people view climate change.  
• More people are connecting their personal run-ins with disasters to the climate crisis.
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Let's not call the extreme heat, flooding, and wildfires upending lives around the world "the new normal."