Chapter 2. What are the signs of current climate change?

A flooded coconut plantation on the island of Loh in Vanuatu. The rise in the water level is caused by both global warming and the sinking of the islands. The main indicator of climate change is the unprecedented scale and speed of the increase in temperature at the surface of the globe. But there are others such as the retreat of ice, changes in the global water cycle and in certain climatic extremes, the warming of oceans and an increase in average sea level. Surface warmin...