Climate Change

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Climate change is a major issue that humanity is facing. Warming tempertures and changing weather patterns are effecting the globe.

But what is causing this distruption in the natural cycle and balance of the Earth? The answer is global emissions.

The graph above is what is known as a "sunburst" graph that depicts multiple data points and the overall picture. In this case we can see that the biggest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. Are Energy at 73.2%, Agriculture Forestry and Land Use at 18.4%, Industry at 5.2%, and Waste at 3.2%. When hovering over each of the outer rings you are able to see even closely at how the major industries in each of greenhouse gas contributors.

Temperature anomalies are important when researching global climate change. This is the difference between the long-term average temperature and the temperature that is actually occurring. A positive anomaly means that the temperature was warmer than normal, while a negative means the temperature was cooler than normal. We are using temperature anomaly data from Worcster, MA in 1990-2022. As seen in this graph, the temperatures are trending increasingly warmer than the long-term average. This is seen below in the graph.