Impacts at 1oC
1oC - Arctic sea ice volume to 2019
1oC - Average global temperature change to 2020
1oC - Socioeconomic impacts of climate change already manifesting
1oC - a one in thousands of years storm like Huricane Harvey is 3x as likely and 15% more intense
1oC - AMOC seems to have weakened about 15%, the most in the last 1,500 years
1oC - Antarctic ice melt has increased 6 fold to 250 billion tons in last 4 decades
1oC - Antarctic ice melt rates are up to two orders of magnitude greater than theories had predicted
1oC - babitats are shifting 17km northward and 11m vertically per decade according to IPCC
1oC - between 1972 and 2018 the area burned in CA every year is up 500%
1oC - birds and butterflies are lagging behind shifting climatic zones by 212 and 135 kms respectiveley
1oC - flash flooding of kind that hit Wuhan, China in 2016 now 10x as likely to occur
1oC - marine heatwave days are up by 50% since first half of 20th century
1oC - mountain glaciers are now losing 335 billion tons of ice per year
1oC - rainfall intensity is increasing in many parts of the world
1oC - since the 1970’s the Antarctic’s Pine Island Glacier has gone from releasing 6 billion tons of ice to 46 billion tons of ice
1oC - the frequency of high-tide flooding in Eastern U.S. has doubled in the last 30 years
1oC - the reproductive success of corals has declined globally by 80% since 1970’s
1oC - warmer waters may be causing corals to lose their ability to synchronize release of eggs and sperm over large distances
An error has occurred. Please reload and try again.
Reload