Mutant Weather

A warmer planet is creating drier conditions and increasing lightning activity which means more fuel and ignition.

Climate change means warmer ocean temperatures and higher sea levels. This is intensifying and strengthening hurricanes and tropical cyclones.

Perhaps the most calamitous of the effects of climate change is the melting permafrost and resulting rising sea levels. The Arctic is disappearing.

A warmer earth can lead to a deadly domino effect: an increase in occurrence, frequency, and intensity of sinkholes and landslides.

In recent years, an unprecedented amount of flooding is drowning towns and changing the landscape, causing billions in losses and taking lives.

As global temperatures rise, deadly rogue storm events become more frequent and wider spread, including an increase in thunderstorms in the north.

As the atmosphere warms, tornadoes are appearing in places not accustomed to this deadly phenomenon, including more densely populated areas.

Heat waves are on the rise, as well as droughts, fires, and floods. Some cities are seeing the highest monthly temperatures in history.

The air we breathe is in jeopardy, with an increase in greenhouse gases both polluting the air and trapping pollution under the smog.

The warming planet is heating more rapidly in the north, compromising the mass of arctic air called the Polar Vortex.