Climate Changes Resulting from Global Warming
¥Glaciers are melting.
¥Air temperature ovef land is rising.
¥The global percentage of land area in drought has increase by about 10%
¥Snow cover is shrinking.
¥Regions of Earth where water is frozen for at least one month each year are shrinking with impacts on related ecosystems.
¥The southern boundary of North Hemisphere permafrost is retreating poleward.
¥Tree lines are shifting poleward and to higher elevations.
¥Spring is coming earlier.
¥Plants are leafing out and blooming earlier each year.
¥The lower atmosphere (troposphere) is warming.
¥The tropics gave expanded.
¥Species are migrating poleward and to higher elevations.
¥Atmospheric humidity is rising.
¥The global water cycle has accelerated.
¥Air temperature over the oceans is rising.