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Climate Impacts

• Climate Change Around 2040: Reading the Projections — Climate change around 2040 means a warmer global climate with increasing heat hazards, continued sea-level rise and regionally different water-cycle…
• Climate Change and Extreme Weather: What We Know — Human-caused climate change changes the likelihood or intensity of many extremes rather than acting as the sole cause of every event.
• How Does Climate Change Raise Sea Level? — Climate change raises global sea level mainly because seawater expands as it warms and because melting glaciers and ice sheets on land add water to the…

Climate Basics

• Our Climate Future: What Models Actually Project — Climate models project continued near-term warming, with greater heat and other risks as warming increases.
• Climate Scenarios Explained: Reading SSP Labels — Climate scenarios describe possible futures under stated assumptions, not forecasts of which future will occur.
• The Greenhouse Effect Explained Without the Fog — The greenhouse effect is the process by which gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor absorb and re-emit some infrared energy leaving…
• Keeling Curve Explained: Reading the CO2 Record — The Keeling Curve records atmospheric carbon dioxide measured at Mauna Loa, Hawaii, beginning in 1958.
• Weather vs. Climate: The Difference That Matters — Weather is the short-term state of the atmosphere at a particular time and place, including rain, wind, and temperature.

Climate Action

• Climate Mitigation vs. Adaptation: Why We Need Both — Climate mitigation limits future change by reducing greenhouse-gas emissions or increasing durable removals.