Global Q&A: ‘Have weather conditions changed in your country over the past five to ten years?’

Mosquera, Cundinamarca, Colombia: Ayda Gonzalez, 36, Publicist: It has become warmer. It is hotter—in the news one sees forest fires and floods that have taken place. In the region, for example at Christmas, it never rained; now it has; generally one perceives the change, but it has not affected me directly.

Generally, weather patterns have become very changeable to include bush fires, floods, and the extremes of heat and cold. This is what Epoch Times reporters from areas such as Colombia to Sweden discovered when they asked locals, “Have weather conditions changed in your country over the past five to ten years?”

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