Tracking Climate effects - Lici Mixson

 Sometimes it can be hard to keep track of how climate change will effect different areas. Some areas of the Planet are dealing with rising sea levels, other places experience new and worsening droughts, flooding,  and many others simply record high/low temperatures for the year. Due to the fact that climate change will effect a lot of people in a lot of different ways the CDC uses a multitude of resources to track and record what places, how, and the severity of the climate crisis and uses this data to get an idea of how our current climate crisis could potentially in the future. There have even been technologies used to track CO2 levels and emissions in real time. Just like in the film we watched that shows the NASA scientists using the data we already have collected from tracking new weather patterns, we are able to use this data to predict and prepare for the future. 

Sources: 

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/7/16/21324662/climate-change-air-pollution-tracking-greenhouse-gas-emissions-trace-coalition

https://ephtracking.cdc.gov/showClimateChangeIndicators