Earth911 Podcast: USAFacts Shares U.S. Climate Data Insights

Earth911 Podcast: USAFacts Shares U.S. Climate Data Insights

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Most of us nonetheless wrestle to get our heads across the science of climate change, however the impacts are clearly felt virtually every single day someplace within the United States. In June 2021, USAFacts reports, 97 million individuals within the United States skilled hotter than common temperatures, together with record-shattering warmth within the West. In August, the information reveals 84.8 million Americans — a 3rd of the nation — had been nonetheless affected by greater than common temperatures. Understanding how persistent however distributed the affect of the local weather disaster is helps us internalize the necessity to make changes in our life.

USAFacts' U.S. temperature visualization
USAFacts’ U.S. temperature visualization is one among many local weather studies mentioned on this episode of Sustainability in Your Ear.

Our visitor, Tanveer Ali, is an information visualization analyst at USAFacts. The Bellevue, Washington-based nonprofit, based by former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, just lately launched a handy strategy to maintain tabs on the results of the local weather disaster, the Climate in the U.S. expertise. It supplies often up to date visualizations of a wide range of U.S. local weather statistics and helpful insights into how life is altering for our neighbors.