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From floods and hurricanes to wildfires and mudslides, climate change set the stage for numerous natural disasters across the U.S. in 2018. In the list below, we rank ten of the year’s most noteworthy events by their “climate buzz,” as …
Trump Administration Climate Report: It’s Real, It’s Here, It’s Because of Fossil Fuels. And The Sooner We Fix It, The Better. The National Climate Assessment (NCA) is a congressionally-mandated report released at least every four years on what the past, …
Climate Change Already Worsening Weather in the West The western United States has warmed nearly 2°F since 1900, and with that has come increased fires, drought and disease. The wildfire season has grown, as reduced snowpack further makes fires more …
Exclusive Briefing on IPCC Special Report on 1.5°C Transcript has been edited for clarity Moderator: Good evening from Incheon and good morning to all of you back in the U.S. I’m Bridgette Burkholder and I’ll be moderating the call today. …
US Leaders Former Secretary of State John Kerry: “The world’s best scientists are telling us that today’s damage is just a glimpse of a future no responsible leader should be willing to accept, and that untenable future is coming sooner …
Following on from our list of Top 10 Climate Events in the U.S., we have compiled the list below of the biggest climate change impacts of 2017 across the globe. ICE RETREAT MARCHES TO THE POLES On July 12, after …
Below are selected highlights and excerpts from Volume 1 of the 4th U.S. National Climate Assessment by the U.S. Global Change Research Program, published on November 3, 2017. Report Highlights The report concludes “it is extremely likely that human …
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said in an interview with CNBC this morning that he doesn’t believe carbon dioxide is a major contributor to climate change. “I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging …
The Mississippi River basin spans 31 states and directly borders 10, comprising the Mississippi River corridor. The region is increasingly feeling the impacts of climate change.
California is vulnerable to increasing heat, melting snowpack, droughts, sea level rise and wildfires California’s climate is already changing. Southern California has warmed about three degrees Fahrenheit in the last century and the rest of the state is becoming warmer. …
Utah is vulnerable to increasing heat, melting snowpack, droughts, and wildfires Utah’s climate is already changing. The state has warmed two degrees Fahrenheit in the last century. Utah can expect increasing frequency and intensity of heat waves, reduced snowpack, reduced …
Climate change is disrupting the natural cycle of seasons Climate change forces spring to arrive much earlier, while winters to become shorter and milder. This phenomenon has been documented globally and informally dubbed as “season creep.” Season creep can have …
Pushing global temperatures past these thresholds can trigger irreversible changes even if we do not add any further CO2 to the atmosphere. These changes may be abrupt or may take hundreds of years, but once the threshold is passed they cannot be reversed.
The effects of sea level rise, more extreme storms, prolonged drought and severe flooding threaten infrastructure systems that provide essential services for society — from drinking and wastewater systems to the transportation that drives our economy and the energy systems that power the national grid.
As the world warms, one often overlooked issue is its effects on sports and recreation. While not as life-threatening as extreme weather or as costly as droughts, climate change’s impacts on sports is something that’s becoming increasingly common.
Climate Change Impacts Arizona • California • Colorado • Nevada • New Mexico • Utah The following is a compilation of climate change impacts occurring right here, right now in the Southwest, as well as projected impacts, economic and human health consequences, and …
Climate Change Impacts Virginia • Kentucky • Tennessee • North Carolina • South Carolina Georgia • Florida • Alabama • Mississippi • Arkansas • Louisiana • Puerto Rico The following is a compilation of regional climate change impacts in the Northeast …
The following is a compilation of climate change impacts occurring right here, right now in the Northwest, as well as projected impacts, economic and human health consequences, and notable recent events. The Northwest is home to 12 million inhabitants. Climate change already poses a challenge to the Northwest, from extreme heat to wildfires, and conditions are likely to increase in severity.
