Climate Facts

The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.

Carbon dioxide makes up only about 0.04% of Earth's atmosphere, yet it's a powerful greenhouse gas. Interestingly, its warming effect follows a logarithmic curve—each doubling of CO2 concentration produces roughly the same amount of additional warming, meaning the first 100 ppm has more impact than the next 100 ppm.

The Sahara Desert has expanded by about 10% since 1920, growing at an average rate of approximately 11,000 square kilometers per year.

There are no ants in Iceland, Antarctica, and Greenland.

Europe is the only continent without a hot desert.

The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!

It takes a drop of ocean water approximately 1,000 years to complete a full circuit through the global ocean circulation system.

Columbia University engineer Klaus Lackner developed artificial "leaves" that can absorb carbon dioxide from the air 1,000 times faster than natural leaves, using a moisture-swing process that requires no external energy input.