CLIMATE CHANGE
CLIMATE CHANGE
Sea level rise
Global temperature rise
How do we know?
Warming oceans
Shrinking ice sheets
Declining Arctic sea ice
Scientific consensus: Earth's climate is warming
Multiple studies published in peer-reviewed scientific journals1 show that 97 percent or more of actively publishing climate scientists agree: Climate-warming trends over the past century are extremely likely due to human activities
Most climate scientists agree the main cause of the current
global warming trend is human expansion of the "greenhouse
effect" — warming that results when the atmosphere traps heat
radiating from Earth toward space.
A blanket around the Earth
Mitigation – reducing climate change – involves reducing the flow of heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere
SOLUTIONS
Adaptation – adapting to life in a changing climate – involves adjusting to actual or expected future climate.
Taken as a whole, the range of published evidence indicates
that the net damage costs of climate change are likely to be significant and to increase over time.