Sea Level Rise - Climate Central
网页Climate Central’s Program on Sea Level Rise strives to provide accurate, clear and granular information about sea level rise and coastal flood hazards both locally and globally, today and tomorrow.
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网页Climate Central researches and reports on the impacts of climate change, including sea level rise and coastal flooding, extreme weather and weather attribution, global warming and local ...
New Presentation: Our Changing Climate - Climate Central
网页2020年11月25日 · Download Full Presentation (PPT, 148MB) Updated: April 2021. Climate Central is presenting a new outreach and education resource for meteorologists, journalists, and others—a climate change ...
The Greenhouse Effect - Climate Central
网页2014年4月15日 · When we add extra greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, though, we increase the atmosphere’s heat-trapping capacity. Less heat escapes to space, more returns to Earth, and the planet warms. There ...
Analysis: Global extreme heat in June 2024 strongly linked to …
网页2024年6月28日 · Nearly 5 billion people suffered from climate-change-driven extreme heat over 9 days in June. More than 60% of the world population faced extreme heat that was made at least three times more ...
Growing Degree Days - Climate Central
网页2022年3月9日 · Climate Central analyzed trends in GDD with a base temperature of 50 °F at 246 locations across the U.S. from 1970 to 2021 and found that: Over this period, GDD increased by 525 on average ...
Surging Weather-related Power Outages - Climate Central
网页2022年9月13日 · Between 2000 and 2021, about 83% of reported major outages in the U.S. were attributed to weather-related events. The average annual number of weather-related power outages increased by roughly 78 ...
Climate change and the escalation of global extreme heat
网页2024年5月28日 · This report assesses the influence of human-caused climate change on dangerous heat waves over the past 12 months (May 15, 2023 to May 15, 2024) using the Climate Shift Index. The period of ...
Urban Heat Islands - Climate Central
网页2021年7月14日 · The cities with the five most intense urban heat islands are New Orleans, Newark, N.J., New York City, Houston, and San Francisco. Find more results in our urban heat island report. Heat islands ...
Show Up for Stripes Day on June 21, 2024! | Climate Central
网页June 21, 2024 is the seventh annual "Show Your Stripes Day"– an event dedicated to growing global awareness about human-caused climate change, its cascading impacts to our health and our homes ...