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This video was edited together from news footage by Peter Sinclair of Climate Denial Crock of the Week, and it could EASILY be the scene from a disaster movie showing a news footage montage right before everything goes to hell. (You know what I mean, right? The 21st-century equivalent of the spinning-headline shot? Like in Shaun of the Dead.)

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The video only covers incidents from summer 2012 — the Texas hailstorm, the heat wave, the wildfires, and the derecho that left 5 million without power. But that’s enough to add up to something pretty disconcerting.

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