History
This region has experienced at decline of surface ice by 13.2% per year over the past decade, one of the worst in the world.
What is the Arctic?
This country, with a per capita carbon dioxide emissions from fuel combustion of 6.59 metric tons, a total carbon dioxide emissions from fuel combustion of 9040.74 metric tons, and holing 28% of the global share of emissions in 2015 is the world's leader in CO2 emissions.
What is China?
This term, often used interchangeable with climate change, is defined by NASA as the increase in Earth’s average surface temperature due to rising levels of greenhouse gases.
What is Global Warming
Behind oil, natural gas, and coal, this controversial source of energy represents the 4th most most consumption in the US, and offers a potential for cleaner, more efficient energy, regarded by some as the way of the future for clean energy, but regarded by others as having side effects too dangerous to make is useful.
What is nuclear energy?
This phenomenon where water from oceans and rivers rise to the land and destroy infrastructure and habitats is expected to triple by 2030.
What is flooding?
This year is has the warmest average temperature of any year on record.
What is the year 2016?
This percentage of people live within 100 kilometers, or about 62 miles, of a shoreline.
What is 39%?
Earth's surface temperature has increased by this amount in the past three decades alone.
What is 1 degree Fahrenheit?
This form of renewable energy is the leader in clean energy in terms of consumption in the United Sates, making up 2.5% of energy.
What is hydro power?
2/3 of this wonder of the oceanic world off the coast of Australia has been severely damaged as a direct result of climate change.
The first ever World Climate Conference, held in Geneva, which is widely regarded as the beginning of the global movement to fight climate change, was held in this year.
When is 1979?
Other than melting glaciers and ice sheets, this factor is the next largest in the crisis of rising sea levels.
What is warming average temperatures of the world's oceans?
Other than rising temperatures and seas levels, this harmful effect of climate change is one of the most prevalent and dangerous, and has the potential to cut our food production by deadly amounts in the future.
What are droughts?
Taking this green measure is the action that can have the greatest effect on reducing emissions and stopping harmful climate change.
What is cutting down on or reducing automobile usage?
Landing in October in 2000, and August in 2017, this event is described as the day that humanity's global consumption outstrips Earth's production of resources.
Earth Overshoot Day
This organization, which started recording data in 1880, is the largest recorder and researcher of weather data in the United States, and is the standard reference of climate change statistics.
What is the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)?
Due to increased temperatures, data has shown an average rise in sea levels by this amount per year in the last decade.
What is 3mm?
These two gases make up 74% of greenhouse gas emissions.
What are Carbon Dioxide and Methane?
100 companies including Exxon Mobil, Chevron, and ConoccoPhillips, represent this percentage of the world's carbon dioxide emissions.
What is 71%?
Over the past 40 years, these entities has absorbed 93% of the heat produced from global warming.
What are the world's oceans?
Enacted January 1st, 1970, President Nixon signed this law, highly regarded as a turning point in the start of emissions and environmental policy in the United States.
What is the National Environmental Policy Act?
This U.S state has seen more destruction by forest fires in the past decade than any other on record, and has seen severe habitat changes due to warming temperatures, making it one of the worst victims of climate change.
Where is Alaska?
Rising temperatures have an effect on animals of these habitat, such as Red Pandas, who are being forced to climb higher to avoid rising temperatures, leading to conflict of habitats of animals who used to live in harmony.
What are arboreal or tree-dwelling animals?
This company has been named one of the most sustainable in the world, powering it's stores by 700,000 solar panels, using wood and cotton only from sustainable producers, and with a goal to run on 100% renewable energy by 2020.
What is Ikea?
Since 2008, officials estimate that 21.5 million people have been displaced due to climate related factors in what is known as this.
Refugee Crisis