by Our Global Climate Team | Jan 17, 2018 | Impacts, What is Global Climate Change?, What is happening?
The impact of the earth’s increasing surface temperature is meaningful in itself because it will affect the planet. But global warming will cause other reactions on the planet to happen that will have a vast effect on earth. The warming of the planet changes rainfall...
by Our Global Climate Team | Jan 17, 2018 | Changes in the World, Impacts, Sea Level Rise, United States
The term “tropical cyclone” can be enough to cause panic just by itself. But what is a tropical cyclone, really, and what makes it so different from other storms? A tropical cyclone is a rotating low-pressure system of clouds and thunderstorms that forms over tropical...
by Our Global Climate Team | Jan 17, 2018 | Impacts, What is Global Climate Change?, What is happening?
There’s a big difference between short-term weather phenomena and long-term climate patterns, and too often people don’t make this distinction when they’re considering the effects of climate change. While there’s considerable controversy over the motives behind...
by Our Global Climate Team | Jan 17, 2018 | Impacts, What is Global Climate Change?
Mark Twain is often credited with the famous line – “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” whether he truly made that classic observation, the sentiment holds true today not only regarding daily weather cycles, but throughout the...
by Our Global Climate Team | Jan 17, 2018 | Impacts, What is Global Climate Change?, What is happening?
There’s a big difference between short-term weather phenomena and long-term climate patterns, and too often people don’t make this distinction when they’re considering the effects of climate change. While there’s considerable controversy over the motives behind...