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The original climate spiral was published on 9 May 2016 by British climate scientist Ed Hawkins to portray global average temperature anomaly (change) since 1850. [6] The visualization graphic has since been expanded to represent other time-varying quantities such as atmospheric CO 2 concentration, [ 3 ] carbon budget , [ 3 ] and arctic sea ice ...
A related phenomenon driven by climate change is woody plant encroachment, affecting up to 500 million hectares globally. [218] Climate change has contributed to the expansion of drier climate zones, such as the expansion of deserts in the subtropics. [219] The size and speed of global warming is making abrupt changes in ecosystems more likely ...
A 2-fold increase in CO 2 content changes the wavelengths ranges only slightly, and so this derivative is approximately constant along such an increase. Thus, a 2-fold increase in CO 2 content will reduce the radiation emitted by Earth by approximately: ln(2)*5 W/m 2 = 3.4 W/m 2. More generally, an increase by a factor c/c 0 gives: ln(c/c 0)*5 ...
The National Weather Service and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention worked together to create a new heat risk impact map. This map shows the heat risk nationwide for Friday, April 26, 2024.
The cover of the "Climate Issue" (fall 2020) of the Space Science and Engineering Center's Through the Atmosphere journal was a warming stripes graphic, [91] and in June 2021 the WMO used warming stripes to "show climate change is here and now" in its statement that "2021 is a make-or-break year for climate action". [56]
According to IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, in the last 170 years, humans have caused the global temperature to increase to the highest level in the last 2,000 years. The current multi-century period is the warmest in the past 100,000 years. [3] The temperature in the years 2011-2020 was 1.09 °C higher than in 1859–1890.
Climate proxy temperature data was needed at seasonal or annual resolution covering a wide geographical area to provide a framework for testing the part climate forcings had played in past variations, look for cycles in climate, and find if debated climatic events such as the Little Ice Age and Medieval Warm Period were global.
Dr Archer said climate change scientists were already trying to understand how climate change shaped Storm Bert. Dr Leanne Archer said the UK's current flood defences needed to be future-proofed [BBC]