Chart of the Week: Climate change is already here
Average temperatures have risen over the past century in nearly every part of the U.S. outside the Deep South.
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Average temperatures have risen over the past century in nearly every part of the U.S. outside the Deep South.
An international panel of scientists warned yesterday of that the world is already experiencing the effects of climate change and it will get worse — highlighting a problem that people in many countries see as a major threat.
More than six decades of global temperature data, condensed into a 15-second visualization.
We asked Americans how likely they thought five things were to happen by 2064. Here’s what they said, and what science says.
The UN Climate Change Conference convened today in Warsaw with a call for governments to reach an agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The talks begin against a public opinion backdrop in which fewer Americans see global climate change as a major threat than do people in most other regions.
China and the U.S., the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitters, are among the least worried about climate change.
Four-in-ten Americans see global climate change as a major threat to the U.S., fewer than publics in other countries.
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