http://www.climatehotmap.org/Map illustrates fingerprints and harbingers including observed consequences as indicated by periods of unusually warm weather, coastal flooding, and changes in glaciers and polar regions.Climate Change > Impacts and IndicatorsThe Earth is heating up. The early warning signs of global climate change are in -- heat waves and warmer weather, spreading disease, earlier spring arrival, plant and animal range shifts and population declines, sea level rise and coastal flooding, coral reef bleaching, glaciers melting, Arctic and Antarctic warming, downpours, heavy snowfalls, and flooding, droughts and fires.
"An increasing body of observations gives
a collective picture of a warming world
and other changes in the climate system."
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 2001
This map illustrates the local consequences of global warming.
: Direct manifestations of a widespread and long-termglobal warmingclimate changegreenhouse effectweather changesatmosphereemissionsdisastersheat wavesdroughtwarm weatherfires
Land and sea surface temperature anomalies, analysed by the Climate Research Unit, Norwich, UK. Includes scientific papers, dataset terminology, file formats, data for downloading, answers to frequently asked questions, and links to related web sites, grids, and datasets.
A Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. Examines the natural variability, possible trends, frequency, and intensity of severe weather activity in tropical coastal regions, and explores the potential for change in greenhouse conditions.
Analyses a body of observations of all parts of the climate system; catalogues increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases; assesses the processes and feedbacks which govern the climate system.
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