Last summer, some regions of the United States saw excessive rainfall and others excessive drought. Both conditions are attributed in part to changing climate. Models predict rainfall and storm events will intensify and increase in parts of the Midwest and East while in other areas, particularly the Southwest, the climate will become more arid.
Globally, warming is melting polar ice at alarming rates leading to sea water rise along the coasts. Evidence of rising seas is seen in the presence of “ghost forests” where the vegetation is dying because salt water is intruding inland as the ocean rise is killing
