What does greenhouse gases tinker mean?
greenhouse gases tinker

Perhaps they won’t be able to get away with that much longer. Another strand of evidence bolsters the scientific case, and it comes from our improving grasp of the complex ways in which rising levels of greenhouse gases tinker with large-scale systems that drive weather.

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What does greenhouse gases tinker mean?
greenhouse gases tinker

Perhaps they won’t be able to get away with that much longer. Another strand of evidence bolsters the scientific case, and it comes from our improving grasp of the complex ways in which rising levels of greenhouse gases tinker with large-scale systems that drive weather.

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In this case "Tinker with" = "affect"

Another strand of evidence bolsters the scientific case, and it comes from our improving grasp of the complex ways in which rising levels of greenhouse gases affect large-scale systems that drive weather.

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Hi! The verb "to tinker" means "to change/to upset the balance of", so when in the sentence it says"rising gas levels tinker with weather", it means that harmful increasing gases upset the balance of natural weather

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Hi Ghia,

«to tinker with something» is a phrasal verb, it means to play with, to interfere with or to mess around with. In this context it means there's evidence that greenhouse gasses are responsible for dramatic changes in weather on a global scale.

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