That is precisely the climate that Assayas wants to summon for the movie, and we feel it acutely as Maria and Valentine embark on their regular treks.
The researchers then merged the record of past centuries with the much more precisely captured climate history of the last 100 years.
But Prof Kevin Parton from the Institute for Land, Water and Society at Charles Sturt University in New South Wales said: "The overall message of the WMO statement is that recent conditions from all parts of the globe have been precisely what climate scientists predicted would occur under conditions of global warming.
But the deluges happening today are precisely what climate scientists predicted.
And it is certainly impossible to predict precisely what effect climate change will have had on the world economy in a century's time.
Now, let me be clear: I don't know precisely what dangers climate change poses.
Phylogenetic vs. standard regressions generally support prevailing ideas that leaf-traits are adaptively responding to temperature, but wider confidence intervals, and shifts in slope and intercept, indicate an overall reduced ability to predict climate precisely due to the non-random phylogenetic signal.
There are of course open questions yet to be answered by climate scientists – precisely how sensitive the climate is to the increased greenhouse effect, for example.
In three debates, the moderators asked the candidates precisely zero questions about climate change, which represents an existential threat to life on Earth, but did provide a thorough airing of the fund-raising practices of the Clinton Foundation.
New data (pdf) released last month by researchers at Yale and George Mason universities show that a lot of Americans are growing far more concerned about climate change, precisely because they are drawing the links between freaky weather, a climate kicked off-kilter by a fossil-fuel guzzling civilization, and their own lives.
