The following month, Cyclone Nisarga, initially forecast to be the first to batter Mumbai since 1948, made landfall 100 km (65 miles) south of the city, with winds gusting up to 120 kph (75 mph). "People have made a huge sacrifice, they have sacrificed their social lives, their family interactions their mobility and so on. This spate of wild weather is consistent with climate change, scientists say, and the world can expect even more extreme weather and higher risks from natural disasters as global emissions of greenhouse gases continue.

So, even if annual carbon emissions go down in any given year, as they have during the pandemic, as long as we are adding greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the planet will continue to warm.

Efron and Olien’s detailed tour of a geothermal plant, albeit informative, is not as compelling as Wilson’s visit to melting-in-real-time Greenland glaciers.

Tectonic movements, which change the shape, size, position, and elevation of the continental masses and the bathymetry of the oceans, have had strong effects on the circulation of both the atmosphere and the oceans. They're also a mere preview of what climate change has in store, The climate crisis could be making Hurricane Sally worse. Students of Earth system history are not just concerned with documenting what has happened; they also view the past as a series of experiments in which solar radiation, ocean currents, continental configurations, atmospheric chemistry, and other important features have varied. (1) Floods contaminate freshwater supplies, heighten the risk of water-borne diseases, and create breeding grounds for disease-carrying insects such as mosquitoes. Which one will be more popular? Even though An Idiot’s Guide’s episodes clock in at about 10 minutes each, Wilson is able to cover — efficiently, and in quick succession — complex planetary concepts including carbon sequestration, the albedo effect, black carbon, and the collapse of ocean food chains. People may be forced to move, which in turn heightens the risk of a range of health effects, from mental disorders to communicable diseases. Croll’s controversial idea was taken up by Serbian mathematician and astronomer Milutin Milankovitch in the early 20th century. Scientists needed only days to identify climate change as the key culprit in this year’s record temperatures in Siberia, with extreme heat drying out forests and peat across the Russian tundra, leading to massive wildfires. Because different components of the Earth system change at different rates and are relevant at different timescales, Earth system history is a diverse and complex science.

Environmental Protection Agency - What is Climate Change? Governor John Bel Edwards described it as the most powerful hurricane to strike the state, surpassing even Katrina in 2005.

Ongoing temperature increases are expected to aggravate this burden.

Some gases in the Earth's atmosphere act a bit like the glass in a greenhouse, trapping the sun's heat and stopping it from leaking back into space.Many of these gases occur naturally, but human activity is increasing the concentrations of some of them in the atmosphere, in particular: 1. carbon dioxide (CO2) 2. methane 3. nitrous oxide 4. fluorinated gasesCO2 is the greenhouse gas most commonly produced by human activities and it is responsible for 64% of man-made global warming. Tropical cyclones spinning out from the Indian Ocean are showing similar patterns. Floods and extreme precipitation are also increasing in frequency and intensity.

Nevertheless, a WHO assessment, taking into account only a subset of the possible health impacts, and assuming continued economic growth and health progress, concluded that climate change is expected to cause approximately 250 000 additional deaths per year between 2030 and 2050; 38 000 due to heat exposure in elderly people, 48 000 due to diarrhoea, 60 000 due to malaria, and 95 000 due to childhood undernutrition.

Increasingly variable rainfall patterns are likely to affect the supply of fresh water.