Climate Central
Climate Central researches and reports on the impacts of climate change, including sea level rise and coastal flooding, extreme weather and weather attribution, global warming and local ...
Sea Level Rise - Climate Central
Climate Central’s Program on Sea Level Rise strives to provide accurate, clear and granular information about sea level rise and coastal flood hazards both locally and globally, today and tomorrow.
Urban Heat Islands - Climate Central
Jul 14, 2021 · The cities with the five most intense urban heat islands are New Orleans, Newark, N.J., New York City, Houston, and San Francisco. Find more results in our urban heat island report. Heat islands ...
New Presentation: Our Changing Climate - Climate Central
Nov 25, 2020 · Download Full Presentation (PPT, 148MB) Updated: April 2021. Climate Central is presenting a new outreach and education resource for meteorologists, journalists, and others—a climate change ...
El Niño and La Niña: Local and global effects | Climate Central
Feb 7, 2023 · El Niño events are associated with cool and wet winters along the southern U.S., and with mild winters in Alaska and Northwest Canada. Hurricane season. La Niña generally reduces hurricane ...
A Decade of Growth in Solar and Wind Power: Trends Across the U.S.
Apr 2, 2024 · Texas added 1,309 MW of capacity (3% annual increase) and generated 5,049 GWh more than the previous year (4% annual increase). Arizona and New York standout for their relative growth in wind ...
The Greenhouse Effect - Climate Central
Apr 15, 2014 · When we add extra greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, though, we increase the atmosphere’s heat-trapping capacity. Less heat escapes to space, more returns to Earth, and the planet warms. There ...
Climate change and the escalation of global extreme heat
May 28, 2024 · This report assesses the influence of human-caused climate change on dangerous heat waves over the past 12 months (May 15, 2023 to May 15, 2024) using the Climate Shift Index. The period of ...
Extreme Precipitation in a Warming Climate
May 1, 2024 · As the climate has warmed from 1958 to 2021, the most extreme precipitation days have intensified in every major U.S. region, led by the Northeast (+60%) and Midwest (+45%). This hazardous ...
IPCC 6th Assessment Report - The Physical Science Basis
Aug 9, 2021 · The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the first of three installments of the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). The first installment, called Working Group I (WG1), discusses ...