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Finally, the Michie team worked using a hypothesis that warmer climates are migrating ever-northwards; they analysed data using the unit of distance rather than temperature. To know what London’s weather was like in 1900, they postulated, one should not consider London weather today, but rather the weather today in Manchester. This untested hypothesis of ‘climate migration’ was then applied to US climate data for the last century.
