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While both atmospheric and underground climate change are caused by humans, the cause of the former can be traced back mostly to heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions due to fossil fuel burning.
More frequent heavy precipitation events are a predicted outcome of climate change. [6] Historically, average snowfall ranges from about 10 inches (25.4 cm) in southern Illinois to 40 inches (100 cm) in northern Illinois. The change in annual snowfall amounts show no trends at all, with years being higher or lower than average.
The July 1995 Chicago heat wave led to 739 heat-related deaths in Chicago over a period of five days. [1] Most of the victims of the heat wave were elderly poor residents of the city, who did not have air conditioning , or had air conditioning but could not afford to turn it on, and did not open windows or sleep outside for fear of crime. [ 2 ]
In it, the IUGG concurs with the "comprehensive and widely accepted and endorsed scientific assessments carried out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and regional and national bodies, which have firmly established, on the basis of scientific evidence, that human activities are the primary cause of recent climate change".
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For Earth Day 2022, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot will unveil her climate action plan. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: ...
In 2004, the geologist and historian of science Naomi Oreskes analyzed the abstracts of 928 scientific papers on "global climate change" published between 1993 and 2003. 75% had either explicitly expressed support for the scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change, or had accepted it as a given and were focused on evaluating its ...
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