The Climate Change Monitoring Services (CCMS) is taking steps to bring this evidence to the public's attention, with the goal of building support for action to reduce the heat-trapping gas emissions that cause global warming. We have developed - and always updated - a world map, viewable online and also available as an Online Maps, that shows where the fingerprints and harbingers of global warming have occurred in recent years. By showing the local consequences of climate change, it brings the message home effectively.
Compelling new evidence demonstrates that global warming is already under way with consequences that must be faced today as well as tomorrow. The evidence is of two kinds:
![]() Coral Bleaching | ![]() Disease | ![]() Drought | ![]() Glacier Melting | ![]() Heatwave | ![]() Heavy Storm | ![]() Methane efflux | ![]() Migration |
![]() Polar Melting | ![]() Sea-level Rise | ![]() WaterWar |