Global Climate Change is going to impact some areas very dramatically in a very short time. Other areas will experience a slower and more graduated schedule of change. San Francisco is in the Hot Zone, which means we are going to see dramatic change and see it soon.
I came across a fascinating fully interactive global climate change map and I want to share it with you. Global temperature in 1998 was the hottest in the historical record, and the temperature increase over the 21st century is likely to be the highest of the past thousand years. Global average temperatures have warmed about one degree Fahrenheit (0.6 c) since 1900. The ten warmest years on record have occurred since 1987, seven of them since 1994.
This map illustrates the local consequences of global warming.
Events indicated on the map are divided into two categories:
- Fingerprints. Some of the events are direct manifestations of a widespread and long-term trend toward warmer global temperatures, as already documented and projected to continue by models of a changing climate. These "fingerprints" of climate change are indicated with yellow icons.
- Harbingers. The map also identifies events that foreshadow the types of impacts likely to become more frequent and widespread with continued warming. These "harbingers" of climate change are indicated with red icons. For these events, evidence for a direct link to long-term climate change cannot be confirmed or ruled out at this time.
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