What are climate signals?
How do climate signals help explain climate change impacts in real time?
Climate signals serve as the middle links between greenhouse gas emissions and individual climate events. Climate events are environmental hazards or processes that human-caused greenhouse gas emissions have made more likely, severe, or damaging, such as heat waves, extreme storms or glacial retreat.
Rather than waiting for scientists to conduct a formal attribution analysis for a climate event, the Climate Signals platform links individual events to climate change by demonstrating how an event exemplifies, or is consistent with, long-term trends or changes expected in a warmer world as determined by attribution science as well as observations, modeling, and basic physics.