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The top 10 global weather and climate change events of 2021
网页2022年1月11日 · Below is a list of the top-10 weather and climate change events of 2021, as rated by the impacts on humans and/or meteorological significance. 1. The most extreme heat wave in world history. Never in the century-plus history of world weather observation have so many all-time heat records fallen by such a large margin than in the historic late ...
A major milestone: Global climate pollution may have just peaked
网页2024年7月16日 · Global society may have finally slammed on the brakes for climate-warming pollution released by human fossil fuel combustion. According to the Carbon Monitor Project, the total global climate pollution released between February and May 2024 declined slightly from the amount released during the same period in 2023.Many experts believe that the clean energy transition has reached the point where ...
Climate change and tornadoes: Any connection?
网页2021年7月19日 · Climate change may be the existential threat of our lives, yet when it comes to in-your-face weather, tornadoes are in a class of their own. There are signs that climate change is part of some noteworthy recent shifts in the location and timing of the tornado threat – shifts that are pushing the dangers toward more vulnerable places and periods, even as the total number of violent U.S ...
Climate change and droughts: What’s the connection?
网页2023年5月11日 · Climate change, namely rising average temperatures driven by human-generated emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, is contributing to droughts, too. Drought conditions across the contiguous United States as of August 10, 2021. Around 40% of the U.S. is experiencing drought. (Source: U.S. Drought Monitor/Drought.gov)
Key takeaways from the new IPCC report - Yale Climate Connections
网页2021年8月9日 · A hellish northern summer laced with deadly heat waves, perilous floods, and massive wildfires may be just a preview of coming attractions, according to a blockbuster new assessment from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The assessment lays out how the planet’s air, oceans, and …
The world just broke a stunning slew of heat records. Why right …
网页2023年7月7日 · Hottest single days globally on record. Drawing on multi-source analyses from NOAA of daily global temperature that extend back to 1979, the Climate Reanalyzer website shows that July 3, 2023, was the warmest single day on record — only to be toppled by July 4, tied on July 5, and broken again on July 6 (see Figure 1 below). The Copernicus Climate Change Project, part of the European Center ...
The new IPCC Report includes – get this, good news
网页2021年8月12日 · The report’s SSP3-7.0 pathway (the latter number represents the eventual global energy imbalance caused by the increased greenhouse effect, in watts per square meter), is considered by many experts to be a realistic worst-case scenario, with global carbon emissions continuing to rise every year throughout the 21 st century. Such an outcome would represent a complete failure of international ...
Warming world, deadly problem: Heat-related deaths are surging
网页3 天之前 · The study found that between 1999 and 2023, the heat-related mortality rate – the number of deaths per 100,000 people – rose by 63%. But the data showed something even more disturbing: The trend is rapidly accelerating. “The death rate,” Howard said, “has risen 117% in the last seven years.”. Sara Meerow is an urban heat expert at ...
Scientists agree: Climate change is real and caused by people
网页2022年2月17日 · [Leer en español aquí] The scientific consensus that climate change is happening and that it is human-caused is strong. Scientific investigation of global warming began in the 19th century, and by the early 2000s, this research began to coalesce into confidence about the reality, causes, and general range of adverse effects of global warming.This conclusion was drawn from studying air and ...