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Climate

Climate

Climate plays an important role in where plants, animals, and humans can thrive. As the global climate changes, it threatens the safety and well-being of our communities, our economy, and our natural heritage. The USGS investigates the causes and consequences of climate change and helps people create strategies to navigate this global crisis. 

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Climate

Climate

Climate plays an important role in where plants, animals, and humans can thrive. As the global climate changes, it threatens the safety and well-being of our communities, our economy, and our natural heritage. The USGS investigates the causes and consequences of climate change and helps people create strategies to navigate this global crisis. 

Climate 101
Climate Impacts on Plants and Animals
Coasts, Storms, and Sea Level Rise
Droughts and Climate Change
Greenhouse Gases and Carbon Storage
Paleoclimate
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Towards critical white ice conditions in lakes under global warming

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Does the USGS monitor global warming?

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Climate Warming is Likely to Cause Large Increases in Wetland Methane Emissions

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Smoky Mountain fires on the night of Nov. 28, 2016

Will global warming produce more frequent and more intense wildfires?

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WERC High Sierra's

What is the difference between global warming and climate change?

Presentations and Events

PubTalk 5/2008 — Global Warming

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Response of a tidal brackish marsh to global change drivers: an ecosystem level manipulation of warming and elevated carbon dioxide

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Global-scale changes to extreme ocean wave events due to anthropogenic warming

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Does the USGS monitor global warming?

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Sources of global warming in upper ocean temperature during El Niño

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Sources of global warming of the upper ocean on decadal period scales

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[Book review] Climate change for the next generation: Global Warming, by Jenny Tesar

Research
Response of a tidal brackish marsh to global change drivers

Response of a tidal brackish marsh to global change drivers: an ecosystem level manipulation of warming and elevated carbon dioxide- Glenn Guntenspergen

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Land–atmosphere feedbacks amplify aridity increase over land under global warming

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Data compilation of soil respiration, moisture, and temperature measurements from global warming experiments from 1994-2014

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Divergent surface and total soil moisture projections under global warming

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Arctic vegetation, temperature, and hydrology during Early Eocene transient global warming events

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Latitudinal variation in carbon storage can help predict changes in swamps affected by global warming

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Warming-driven erosion and sediment transport in cold regions

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Continuously amplified warming in the Alaskan Arctic: Implications for estimating global warming hiatus

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Integrating modeling and empirical approaches to improve predictions of tropical forest responses to global warming

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The greenhouse gas flux and potential global warming feedbacks of a northern macrotidal and microtidal salt marsh

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Pliocene climates; scenario for global warming

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Volcano Watch — Volcanoes are not responsible for Global Warming

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Effectiveness of a decade of treatments to reduce invasive buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare)

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Global warming and prairie wetlands: potential consequences for waterfowl habitat

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Geologic and hydrologic hazards in glacierized basins in North America resulting from 19th and 20th century global warming

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Simulated global coastal ecosystem responses to a half-century increase in river nitrogen loads

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Potential effects of global warming on the Sacramento/San Joaquin watershed and the San Francisco estuary

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Volcano Watch — Volcanic eruptions temporarily reduce the effects of global warming