Climate Change Seen from Space and Earth's Surface

The physical climate of our planet and its regions is characterized by temperatures, rain and snow patterns, sea level, winds and many other variables. Mapping out the full range of climatic behavior requires many measurements over differing geographical areas and time scales --- day-to-day, season-to-season and year-to-year. This talk will review up-to-date data on temperatures of air and water, ice amounts and sea level, including many observations taken from Earth-orbiting satellites. There is much evidence of global climate change especially in the last 30 years. Rising temperatures are strongly linked to increased amounts of atmospheric greenhouse gases from human activities.

Ralph J. Cicerone is the president of the National Academy of Sciences

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