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Indicators of climate change in California 2018

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California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment
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This report helps support policy decisions and facilitates communication about climate change by providing, in a single document, indicators characterizing its multiple aspects in California. Indicators are scientifically-based measurements that track trends in various aspects of climate change. Many indicators reveal discernable evidence that climate change is occurring in California and is having significant, measurable impacts in the state.

The report’s 36 indicators are grouped into four categories, as listed below. The report discusses what these indicators show, why they are important, and the factors that may be influencing them.

  • Human-influenced (anthropogenic) drivers of climate change, such as greenhouse gas emissions
  • Changes in the state’s climate
  • Impacts of climate change on physical systems, such as oceans, lakes and snowpack
  • Impacts of climate change on biological systems – humans, vegetation and wildlife

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Themes Climate change Environment and ecosystems
Country and region United States of America
Number of pages
351 p.
Publication year
2018

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