NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, based on data from the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Story by Emily Cassidy. This really isn't news to me, but I really like the graphs...
The warmer-than-usual July continues a long-term trend of warming, driven primarily by human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. July 2023 was 0.24°C (0.43°F) warmer than any previous July in NASA’s record. And according to GISS temperature anomaly data, the top-five hottest Julys since 1880 have all happened in the past five years.
Extreme heat contributed to devastating wildfires and blistering heat waves in the Northern Hemisphere. “These changes that we’re seeing in global temperatures are being reflected in real heat extremes that people are experiencing locally,” Schmidt said. “We can say with some confidence now that the heat waves we are seeing in North Africa, the Middle East, the U.S. Southwest, China, and southern Europe are being directly impacted by the fact that the whole planet is warming.”
NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, based on data from the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Story by Emily Cassidy.
This really isn't news to me, but I really like the graphs and plots in the above article. By the way, the NASA Earth Observatory webpage is a great resource for this kind of stuff -- and lots of it is quite beautiful and not just doom and gloom articles.
This really isn't news to me, but I really like the graphs and plots in the above article. By the way, the NASA Earth Observatory webpage is a great resource for this kind of stuff -- and lots of it is quite beautiful and not just doom and gloom articles.
Here's a beautiful gallery of clouds: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/CloudsGallery
And here's snow seen from the ISS: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/collection/1711/winter-from-the-international-space-station