Causes

Climate change drove Australian wildfires to extremes attribution science: A field of research, largely used in climate studies. It seeks to test whether — and by how much — climate change may be responsible for certain extreme weather events, such as droughts, extreme flooding, hurricanes, excessive heat or odd storm trajectories. average: (in science) A term for the arithmetic mean, which is the sum of a group of numbers that is then divided by the size of the group. Climate Change & Flooding Sign Up to Receive Flooding Thought Leadership Climate change is increasing the risk of flooding in the US by rising sea levels, increasing extreme precipitation and total precipitation, intensifying storm precipitation, and increasing rates of snow and ice melt. Worsening floods due to climate change are putting a growing number of inland and coastal communities at risk. This year, the spring flood season is overlapping with COVID-19, multiplying the threat to communities at risk of being displaced by flood disasters. How has climate change already worsened US flooding? What is flooding and why is it dangerous?

Accelerated global glacier mass loss in the early twenty-first century 1.Pritchard, H. D. Asia’s shrinking glaciers protect large populations from drought stress. Explainer: Desertification and the role of climate change Desertification has been described as “the greatest environmental challenge of our time” and climate change is making it worse. While the term may bring to mind the windswept sand dunes of the Sahara or the vast salt pans of the Kalahari, it’s an issue that reaches far beyond those living in and around the world’s deserts, threatening the food security and livelihoods of more than two billion people. The combined impact of climate change, land mismanagement and unsustainable freshwater use has seen the world’s water-scarce regions increasingly degraded.

En-ROADS solutions simulator Climate Change Solutions Simulator En-ROADS is a transparent, freely-available policy simulation model that gives everyone the chance to design their own scenarios to limit future global warming. You can try your own experiments and assumptions, and get immediate feedback on the likely impacts. The simulation, developed by Climate Interactive, Ventana Systems, and MIT Sloan, runs on an ordinary laptop in a fraction of a second, is available online, offers an intuitive interface, has been carefully grounded in the best available science, and has been calibrated against a wide range of existing integrated assessment, climate and energy models. A wide range of people have used En-ROADS, including members of the U.S.

SPIRIT & SPIRIT2 — LEGOS Summary The SPIRIT (SPOT 5 stereoscopic survey of Polar Ice: Reference Images and Topographies) project took place during the Fourth International Polar Year (2007/09) and built up a large archive of SPOT 5 stereoscopic images covering most polar ice masses. It allowed the free delivery of high resolution (5-m) ortho-images and 40-m digital elevation models (see "The Product"), data which have already contributed to >100 publications. These data are freely available for the glaciological community (see "Get Data"). In 2013, CNES, Airbus D&S and LEGOS decided to launch a new acquisition campaign, SPIRIT2.

Ranking 10 Countries most affected by Climate Change 4. MADAGASCAR (Climate Risk Index: 15.83) Global warming and climate risks threaten the survival of the lemur and other endemic animal species on the island. Adverse weather events have also made the African country one of the most vulnerable to climate change with 72 deaths — 0.27 per 100,000 inhabitants — about 568 million dollars in economic losses and a drop in per capita GDP of 1.32%. Global warming and the greenhouse effect Earth’s atmosphere works something like a giant glass greenhouse. As the sun’s rays enter our atmosphere, most continue right down to the planet’s surface. As they hit the soil and surface waters, those rays release much of their energy as heat.