Show: Climate Science in the National Climate Assessment[7]
Slide: Energy Usage for Heating and Cooling
Slide ID: 215
| 1 |  | Climate Science in the National Climate Assessment | 2 |  | Global Change Research Act (1990), Section 106 |
| 3 |  | Previous National Climate Assessments | 4 |  | Third National Climate Assessment (2014) |
| 5 |  | Fourth National Climate Assessment (2017, 2018) | 6 |  | Fourth National Climate Assessment (2017, 2018) - continued |
| 7 |  | Previous National Climate Assessments | 8 |  | Observed Temperature and Related Quantities |
| 9 |  | Global Temperature Change by Decade | 10 |  | Global Temperature by Year |
| 11 |  | Observed U. S. Temperature Change | 12 |  | Indicators of Warming from Multiple Datasets |
| 13 |  | Changes in the Length of the Growing Season | 14 |  | Observed Increase in Frost-Free Season Length |
| 15 |  | Has Extreme Weather Increased? | 16 |  | 2-Day Precipitation Events Exceeding a 5-Year Recurrence Interval |
| 17 |  | Observed U. S. Trends in Heavy Precipitation | 18 |  | Heat and Cold Waves |
| 19 |  | Upward Trend in # of Heat Waves Since 1970 | 20 |  | Heat Wave Numbers are UP Nearly Everywhere Since 1970. |
| 21 |  | Heat Wave Numbers are UP Nearly Everywhere Since 1970. | 22 |  | Downward Trend in # of Cold Waves |
| 23 |  | Downward Trend in # of Cold Waves | 24 |  | Cold Wave Numbers are Down Nearly Everywhere |
| 25 |  | Energy Usage for Heating and Cooling | 26 |  | Upward Trend in Energy Needed for Cooling Since 1970 |
| 27 |  | Cooling Demand is Upward Nearly Everywhere Since 1970 | 28 |  | Downward Trend in Energy Needed for Heating Since 1970 |
| 29 |  | Heating Demand is Downward Everywhere Since 1970 | 30 |  | Why is the Earth Warming? |
| 31 |  | Historical Greenhouse Gas Concentrations | 32 |  | Global Temperature Changes since 1950 |
| 33 |  | 800,000 Year Record of Carbon Dioxide Concentration | 34 |  | Alternate/Additional warming causes |
| 35 |  | Temperature vs Sun"s Energy Output | 36 |  | IT"S NOT THE SUN |
| 37 |  | Dust in the Atmosphere | 38 |  | Volcanic Eruptions and El Nino/La Nina have short-term influences on global temperature |
| 39 |  | Attributable Warming oe Cooling Influences of Anthropogenic and Natural Forcings | 40 |  | What is causing global warming? |
| 41 |  | Historical/Projected CO2 Concentrations | 42 |  | How much will it warm in the future? |
| 43 |  | Global Mean Temperature Anomalies | 44 |  | Changes in Extreme Temperature |
| 45 |  | 5-day Annual Tmax, high emissions | 46 |  | 5-day Annual Tmax, moderate emissions |
| 47 |  | Projected Change in Seasonal Precipitation late 21st Century, high emissions | 48 |  | Global Warming→Saturation Water Vapor Increases |
| 49 |  | Future Water Vapor Change (2085) | 50 |  | Future Changes in Extremes |
| 51 |  | SUMMARY OF CSSR | 52 |  | Concluding Thoughts |
| 53 |  | Concluding Thoughts - continued |