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WEBClimate 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 ...
Sea Level Rise - Climate Central
WEBClimate 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.
New Presentation: Our Changing Climate - Climate Central
WEBNov 25, 2020 · 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
WEBApr 15, 2014 · 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 ...
A Decade of Growth in Solar and Wind Power: Trends Across the U.S.
WEBApr 2, 2024 · Texas added 1,309 MW of capacity (3% annual increase) and generated 5,049 GWh more than the previous year (4% annual increase). Arizona and New York standout for their relative growth in wind ...
2021 in Review: Global Temperature Rankings | Climate Central
WEBJan 13, 2022 · The top 10 hottest years on record have all occurred in the last 12 years. Averaging NASA and NOAA data, Climate Central’s analysis shows that 2021 was 1.98°F (1.1°C) warmer than the 1881-1910 ...
Urban Heat Hot Spots - Climate Central
WEBJul 26, 2023 · Climate Central analyzed the urban heat island (UHI) index in 18,945 census tracts comprising 44 large U.S. cities in order to understand where urban heat is most intense within each city. The ...
Analysis: Global extreme heat in June 2024 strongly linked to …
WEBJun 28, 2024 · 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 ...
Urban Heat Islands - Climate Central
WEBJul 14, 2021 · 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 ...
Climate change and the escalation of global extreme heat
WEBMay 28, 2024 · 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 ...
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