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These broader climate changes include: rising sea levels, shrinking mountain glaciers, accelerating ice melt in Greenland, Antarctica and the Arctic, and shifts in flower and plant blooming times. Human activity, especially greenhouse gas emissions, is considered the dominant cause of temperature increases.
Climate change facts. What do you need to know about climate change? We’re already seeing the effects of human-caused climate change — but nature can help. Protecting nature today ensures a more sustainable future.
Here’s everything you need to know about where we are with the climate crisis. 1. There’s more carbon dioxide in our atmosphere than at any time in human history. The Mauna Loa...
From atmospheric CO2 and ocean level rise to global warming and air pollution. Here are 11 interesting climate change facts that people are not aware of.
Adapting our world will not save us from the devastating effects of climate change, say scientists. What is also needed is urgent action to achieve dramatic cuts in CO2 emissions. Here are 10 insights from climate experts delivered in plain language.
Here are 10 key findings you need to know: 1. Human-induced global warming of 1.1 degrees C has spurred changes to the Earth’s climate that are unprecedented in recent human history.
Here are 10 of them. 1. Damage to your home. Floods, the most common and deadly natural disasters in the U.S., will likely be exacerbated and intensified by sea level rise and extreme weather. Heavy precipitation is projected to increase throughout the century to potentially three times the historical average.
30 per cent of the world’s population is exposed to deadly heat waves more than 20 days a year. (Cooling and Climate Change fact sheet, UNEP) Average temperatures for the five-year (2015-2019) and ten-year (2010-2019) periods are the highest on record. (WMO) 2019 was the second hottest year on record. (WMO)
Climate change is a long-term change in the average weather patterns that have come to define Earth’s local, regional and global climates. These changes have a broad range of observed effects that are synonymous with the term.
From global temperature rise to melting ice sheets, the evidence of a warming planet abounds. The rate of change since the mid-20th century is unprecedented over millennia. Earth's climate has changed throughout history.