On an ordinary morning, climate change rarely announces itself. It arrives quietly — in the unseasonably warm February afternoon, the delayed allergy season that suddenly explodes, the summer heat that lingers longer than it once did. For many Americans, climate change no longer feels distant or abstract. It feels personal.
According to research from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, human activity has warmed the atmosphere, ocean, and land at an unprecedented rate. This warming is not theoretical. It shapes daily routines — what we pay for groceries, how we plan travel, and whether our homes feel secure.
“Climate change is already affecting every region on Earth in multiple ways,” the IPCC states in its Sixth Assessment Report. The changes are widespread, rapid, and intensifying.
