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Our aim is to help people understand global climate change and how the factors that
drive climate are changing.
We start with climate diagnostics people are usually most interested in climate change itself.
But cause-and-effect analysis requires also data on climate forcings (which drive climate change)
and feedbacks (which amplify or diminish climate change).
Future climate depends on how climate forcings change human-made greenhouse
gases, especially carbon dioxide, and forcings that are not yet well measured, especially aerosols.
The speed and degree of climate change also will depend upon how fast amplifying feedbacks,
such as Arctic sea ice, the large ice sheets, and methane hydrates come into play.
Table of Contents
Critical Climate Diagnostics and Feedbacks
- Global Temperature (2023/05/12),
- El Nino & La Nina (last modified 2023/06/01)
- Precipitation (last modified 2023/05/03)
- Drought (last modified 2022/10/28)
- Flooding USGS current information
- Wind (last modified 2017/12/05)
- Hurricanes (last modified 2022/11/10)
- Tornadoes (last modified 2023/05/15)
- Temperature, Drought and Wind result in
- Wildfires (last modified 2023/01/19),
Op-Ed in LA Times
- Sea Level (last modified 2023/05/02)
- Ice Sheet Disintegration (last modified 2023/02/12)
- Sea Ice Area (last modified 2023/06/03)
- Species Loss (last modified 2023/03/29)
Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions and Energy Use
Climate Forcings