The weather outside this winter hasn't been terrible in many areas accustomed to four seasons. New Yorkers replaced snowy stays in ski resorts, sunbathing in their neighborhoods—which sometimes felt more like a borderline tropical resort than a typical New York winter day. You may have enjoyed the warmer temperatures and the chance to shed your winter coat a few times during what is supposedly the coldest time of year.

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If so, we hate to be the buzz-kill: A warmer winter is being experienced by people from Kentucky to Massachusetts in the US and in more places across the Europe, is a grim sign of climate change. A person trying to fight climate change through investing explained why. But some places have experienced warm winters—you probably know a few, and you may even live in one.