This map shows the global temperatures in each region of Earth for the year 2024, relative to the average recorded temperature of that region from 1951–1980. Regions where the 2024 temperature was greater than that average are shown in red, while colder than average regions are shown in blue. Note the ubiquity of red and orange colors, as well as the dearth of blue or even white (neutral) ones. (Credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio)
The primary causes of global climate change are all due to human activity. Adding aerosols to our atmosphere only exacerbates the problem.
All across the world, temperatures and weather conditions vary tremendously, as they always have. But if we look to global conditions, by averaging our data about the entire world together, we find that there have been some rapid, even alarming changes happening on a global scale. The biggest changes, overall? They’re threefold.
There have been significant changes to the contents of Earth’s atmosphere, largely due to industrial human activity, and those changes have also affected the land, oceans, and clouds as well.
There has been a significant rise in the average temperature of Earth: locally in nearly all places, as well as globally, with some places experiencing greater warming than others.
And, coincident with those changes, there has been a tremendous decrease in the percentage of Earth’s surface that is wild, versus the percentage that has been used for human (residential, agricultural, industrial, commercial, etc.) purposes.
Although many had hoped that a long-term fix involving the development and global…
