Ten Indicators of a Warming World

Figure 1.

This figure appears in chapter 1 of the Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment report.

These are just some of the indicators measured globally over many decades that show that the Earth’s climate is warming. White arrows indicate increasing trends, and black arrows indicate decreasing trends. All the indicators expected to increase in a warming world are, in fact, increasing, and all those expected to decrease in a warming world are decreasing. (Figure source: NOAA NCDC based on data updated from Kennedy et al. 201025578196-95d0-4ac7-b889-0e863985423d).

When citing this figure, please reference NOAA NCDC based on data updated from Kennedy et al. 201025578196-95d0-4ac7-b889-0e863985423d.

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Other figures containing images in this figure : 34.2: Ten Indicators of a Warming World, 2.1: Ten Indicators of a Warming World

This figure was derived from 2009 State of the Climate Highlights .

References :

• State of the Climate in 2009 (25578196)

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