(4 of 4) Ocean heat content & global sea levels rose to record highs in 2021 per StateOfClimate2021 report. Learn more about global climate events & extremes at NOAANCEI ametsoc
, is based on contributions from more than 530 scientists in over 60 countries. It provides the most comprehensive update on Earth’s climate indicators, notable weather events and other data collected by environmental monitoring stations and instruments located on land, water, ice and in space.
Changes in global average sea level and local sea level between 1993 and 2021. In the global ocean, sea level has risen nearly everywhere . Coastal areas where sea level has fallen are places where the land is rising as it rebounds from being compressed by ice sheets and glaciers during the last ice age. NOAA Climate.gov map, based on data from University of Hawaii Sea Level Center.
"The 2021 AMS State of the Climate provides the latest synthesis of scientific understanding of the climate system and the impact people are having on it," said AMS Associate Executive Director Paul Higgins."If we take it seriously and use it wisely, it can help us thrive on a planet that is increasingly small in comparison to the impact of our activities."Earth’s greenhouse gases were the highest on record.
The State of the Climate report is a peer-reviewed series published annually as a special supplement to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. The journal makes the