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- Home – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
Vital Signs of the Planet: Global Climate Change and Global Warming Current news and data streams about global warming and climate change from NASA
- Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
Climate change is a long-term change in the average weather patterns that have come to define Earth’s local, regional and global climates These changes have a broad range of observed effects that are synonymous with the term
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Vital Signs of the Planet: Global Climate Change and Global Warming Current news and data streams about global warming and climate change from NASA
- Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation
Adaptation – adapting to life in a changing climate – involves adjusting to actual or expected future climate The goal is to reduce our risks from the harmful effects of climate change (like sea-level rise, more intense extreme weather events, or food insecurity)
- Causes | Facts – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
Vital Signs of the Planet: Global Climate Change and Global Warming What is the “greenhouse effect”? What is causing it? Are humans to blame? What does solar irradiance have to do with it? Answers here
- Evidence | Facts – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
Earth-orbiting satellites and new technologies have helped scientists see the big picture, collecting many different types of information about our planet and its climate all over the world These data, collected over many years, reveal the signs and patterns of a changing climate
- Effects | Facts – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
" The magnitude and rate of climate change and associated risks depend strongly on near-term mitigation and adaptation actions, and projected adverse impacts and related losses and damages escalate with every increment of global warming "
- Understanding Earths climate - Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
Earth's climate system adjusts to maintain a balance between solar energy that reaches the planetary surface and that which is reflected back to space: a concept known to science as the "radiation budget "
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