warming Archives - Conservation in a Changing Climate

2020 in review – the year is ending as it began, on a hot streak

With only one month left in the year, 2020 has a 54% chance of becoming the hottest year on record.

Decades of Warming

Though hindsight isn’t quite 2020 yet, climate change has left plenty to remember over the past 10 years. This release covers warming temperatures by the decade, with clear trends at the local, national, and global scales.

December 2020 outlook: warmer and drier than average for most of the U.S.

According to the December 2020 outlook from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, much of the contiguous United States is expected to observe a warmer and drier-than-average end of the year.

NASA, NOAA Analyses Reveal 2019 Second Warmest Year on Record

NOAA and NASA’s global temperature data is in – 2019 was the 2nd hottest year on Earth since records began, making the 2010s the hottest decade on record.

Shorter Cold Snaps and Warming Winters

Rising temperatures sometimes seem most noticeable during periods of extreme heat such as summer heat waves. However, for much of the U.S., winter is the fastest warming season. Cold weather still occurs in a warming climate but, on average, winters are not as cold as they used to be and cold snaps that do happen are becoming shorter and less frequent.

The Warming Twelve Days of Christmas

The Twelve Days of Christmas (December 25 to January 5) have been warming for 97% of locations evaluated since 1969.