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In a new analysis released on Wednesday, scientists said climate change boosted Iceland and Greenland’s temperatures by several degrees during a record-setting May heat wave. That’s raising concerns about the far-reaching implications melting Arctic ice has for weather around the world. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Nicholas Foukal, an assistant professor at the University of Georgia’s Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, about what’s happening in the North Atlantic and what impacts this could have elsewhere.