Rising Global Temperature
Source: "Teach About Climate Change With These 24 New York Times Graphs", New York Times, Feb 28, 2019
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How Much Hotter Is Your Hometown Than When You Were Born?
Source: "Teach About Climate Change With These 24 New York Times Graphs", New York Times, Feb 28, 2019
Summer Temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere
What do you notice?
Source: "Teach About Climate Change With These 24 New York Times Graphs", New York Times, Feb 28, 2019
Melting Ice
Minimum Sea Ice Extent in the Arctic
the 10 lowest ice extents have all been recorded since 2007.
Each year, Greenland loses 270 billion tons of ice as the planet warms. New research shows that some of the water may be trapped in the ice sheet, which could change how scientists think about global sea levels.
In the winter of 2018, the Arctic Ocean hit a record low for ice older than five years.
Scientists say that summers in the Arctic may be ice-free in the future.
Source: "Teach About Climate Change With These 24 New York Times Graphs", New York Times, Feb 28, 2019
Artic Sea Ice has dropped
and lowest point on record in 2012.
and lowest point on record in 2012.
Sea ice has been reducing for decades, with melting accelerating since the early 2000s,
according to the UK Parliament's Environmental Audit Committee.
The Arctic Ocean may be ice-free in the summer as soon as the 2050s, unless emissions are reduced, the committee has said.
The extent of Arctic sea ice in 2019 was tied with 2007 and 2016 as the second lowest on record. The maximum extent, reached in March 2019, was tied with 2007 as the seventh lowest in the 40-year satellite record.
Source: "Climate change: Where we are in seven charts and what you can do to help", BBC, Jan 14, 2020
How Rising Temperatures Could Affect Ice Cover?
across 1.4 million lakes in the Northern Hemisphere.
Source: "Teach About Climate Change With These 24 New York Times Graphs", New York Times, Feb 28, 2019
Changing Air Temperature
Around the globe, summer evening temperatures have risen at nearly twice the rate of daytime temperatures,
putting older people, the sick, and young children at greater risk during heat waves.
Source: "Teach About Climate Change With These 24 New York Times Graphs", New York Times, Feb 28, 2019
Changing Ocean Temperature
An analysis concluded that Earth’s oceans are heating up 40 percent faster on average than a United Nations panel estimated five years ago,
a finding with dire implications for climate change.
Source: "Teach About Climate Change With These 24 New York Times Graphs", New York Times, Feb 28, 2019
Rising Seas
These maps from 2012 show coastal and low-lying areas that would be permanently flooded, without engineered protection, with a five-foot sea level rises over the current level. Percentages are the portion of dry, habitable land within the city limits of places listed that would be permanently submerged.
Source: "Teach About Climate Change With These 24 New York Times Graphs", New York Times, Feb 28, 2019
Winter Olympic Cities,
Many May Soon Be Too Warm to Host the Games
Source: "Teach About Climate Change With These 24 New York Times Graphs", New York Times, Feb 28, 2019
Intensifying Storms
The graph above, from Sept. 1, 2017, compares natural disasters that cost more than $200 billion since 1980. Note that it does not include major storms that occurred after Hurricane Harvey, including Hurricanes Maria, Irma, Florence, and Michael.
Source: "Teach About Climate Change With These 24 New York Times Graphs", New York Times, Feb 28, 2019
Rising Carbon Emission
This 2017 graph shows how two years after countries signed a landmark climate agreement in Paris,
the world remains far off course from preventing drastic global warming in the decades ahead.
Source: "Teach About Climate Change With These 24 New York Times Graphs", New York Times, Feb 28, 2019
Emissions Expected Warming by 2100
The World's Top Emitters of Carbon Dioxide
Fast-Growing Cities Face Worse Climate Risks
Recent Reports on Climate Change Impacts
Atmospheric levels of the three main greenhouse gases - carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide
all reached new record highs in 2021
Source: United in Science 2021 Report
Source: World Meteorological Organization (WMO), 26 October 2022
Impacts of Climate Change
Source: IPCC Climate Change and Land Report(2019)
Impacts On Human Health
Source: Centers for Disease Control Climate Effects on Health
Impacts on Ocean & Marine Mammals
Source: Jessica Schiff, the Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Impacts On Social and Economy
Source: "Economic impacts of Climate Change", Iberdrola, 2019
Impacts On Water
Source: UK Met Office
Contradicting Attitudes
Most people think that climate change will harm Americans, but they don't think it will happen to them.
Source: "Teach About Climate Change With These 24 New York Times Graphs", New York Times, Feb 28, 2019
