U.N. Climate Report reinforces warning, local impacts of climate change will continue and likely worsen
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The latest U.N. Climate Report issued Monday is a dire warning. Climate change is happening, humans are the cause and the impacts will worsen.
The report is a call to action for the world and its leaders. If actions are taken to greatly reduce carbon dioxide, by stopping the use of fossil fuels, a worst case scenario can be avoided.
View possible climate futures for your region at different levels of warming with #IPCC’s new interactive atlas. The atlas is a new development from Working Group I for the Sixth Assessment Report.
— IPCC (@IPCC_CH) August 9, 2021
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Video by @IFCA_CSIC_UC@predictia#IPCCDatapic.twitter.com/jYzK9AZgv6
Extreme weather has been linked to climate change
- Record Breaking Rain & Flooding
- Stronger and More Total Hurricanes
- Record Breaking Heat
- Historic Drought
- Record Number & Size of Wildfires
Locally we have been impacts my extreme weather attributed to climate change.
Just this year we saw a four inch, single day rainfall in late June, that caused flooding and road damage. That rainfall luckily broke what was turning into a drought. When it’s wet it is really wet and dry spells are more extreme as well.
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This summer has also been hot, not in the total number of 90 degree days but extremely muggy nights. Extreme heat in summer is increasing.
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More impacts have been documented our Local Climate Impact page.