2. Climate Change

3. Climate vs Weather Weather – short term condition of the atmosphere
You hear a daily weather report NOT a climate report
Climate – long term atmospheric conditions
Usually recorded from decadal trends

7. Mr. D’Aleo is a Certified Consultant Meteorologist and was elected a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society

9. IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

10. Cycles of Global Warming

11. Image based on data from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.

17. Posted By Marc Morano – 9:51 AM EST – Marc_Morano@EPW.Senate.Gov
  Cooling Underway: Global Temperature Continues to Drop in May 
'Significantly Colder' - 16-month temperature drop of °C!

20. Sea level change since 1993

21. Global Land-Ocean Temp Index

22. Antarctica and Greenland Mass Variation

23. Global Temp Difference

24. From NASA.gov Carbon Dioxide – 404.93 ppm
Global Temp degrees F (since 1880)
Artic Ice %
Land Ice gigatonnes/yr
Sea level mm

25. Also from Nasa Temps continue to rise Growing season lengthen
Changes in precipitation patterns
More droughts and heat waves
Stronger and more intense hurricanes
Sea level rise 1-4 feet by 2100
Artic Ice free in the summer
Midwest. Extreme heat, heavy downpours and flooding will affect infrastructure, health, agriculture, forestry, transportation, air and water quality, and more. Climate change will also exacerbate a range of risks to the Great Lakes.