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Vital Signs of the Planet: Global Climate Change and Global Warming. Current news and data streams about global warming and climate change from NASA.
NASA Says 2022 Fifth Warmest Year on Record, Warming Trend …
Jan 12, 2023 · Climate change has intensified rainfall and tropical storms, deepened the severity of droughts, and increased the impact of storm surges. Last year brought torrential monsoon rains that devastated Pakistan and a persistent megadrought in the U.S. Southwest.
What Is Climate Change? | Facts - Climate Change: Vital Signs of …
Climate change is a long-term change in the average weather patterns that have come to define Earth’s local, regional and global climates. These changes have a broad range of observed effects that are synonymous with the term.
NASA Study Reveals Compounding Climate Risks at Two Degrees …
Aug 14, 2023 · Analysis by the NASA Earth Exchange of high-resolution climate projections concludes that, if global temperatures keep rising and reach 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels, people worldwide could face multiple impacts of climate …
Global Climate Change Impact on Crops Expected Within 10 Years, …
Nov 2, 2021 · Using advanced climate and agricultural models, scientists found that the change in yields is due to projected increases in temperature, shifts in rainfall patterns, and elevated surface carbon dioxide concentrations from human-caused greenhouse gas emissions.
Climate Time Machine - Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
Current news and data streams about global warming and climate change from NASA. Climate Time Machine This series of visualizations shows how some of Earth's key climate indicators are changing over time.
NASA Science - Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
Jan 30, 2024 · Current news and data streams about global warming and climate change from NASA. Earth system science is the study of how scientific data stemming from various fields of research, such as the atmosphere, oceans, land ice and others, fit together to form the current picture of our changing climate.
Causes | Facts – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
Vital Signs of the Planet: Global Climate Change and Global Warming. What is the “greenhouse effect”? What is causing it? Are humans to blame? What does solar irradiance have to do with it? Answers here.
Responding to Climate Change - Climate Change: Vital Signs of …
Jan 30, 2024 · Responding to climate change involves two possible approaches: reducing and stabilizing the levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere (“mitigation”) and adapting to the climate change already in the pipeline (“adaptation”).
Local Lockdowns Brought Fast Global Ozone Reductions, NASA …
Jun 9, 2021 · As the coronavirus pandemic slowed global commerce to a crawl in early 2020, emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) – which create ozone, a danger to human health and to climate – decreased 15% globally, with local reductions as high as 50%, according to a study led by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.