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By ANDREW BLOK
LANSING — Perhaps the hostile climate of a University of Michigan and Ohio State University football game will never change. But the actual climate of each team’s hometown will, according to a recent study in Nature Communications that matches a city’s 2080 climate to its modern equivalent. In fact, it predicts that Ann Arbor’s climate will warm to that of U-M’s arch rivals in present-day Columbus.