Climate change is part of the signal we see in the general warming trend in the North Atlantic. However, most of the environmental conditions that we have seen in the region are still within the range of observations that we have seen in the past. We have set a few records, that's true, and we've had particularly warm years. So climate change is a component of things, but what we're seeing is mostly the general average cyclical level of variability that we see in these systems. We can expect that this underlying level of variability—despite the fact that the baseline associated with climate change—is going to continue to increase, so we will have warmer temperatures. You are still going to see those large cycles that are, in fact, larger in magnitude than the overall change that we're going to see with climate change.
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