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Greetings.

First was called 'global warming', now a more generic 'climate change', like it is not only about getting hotter.

For the recent decades, what are the changes/variations/tendencies in average atmospheric pressure, ultraviolet index, ozone presence, geothermal activity, windy conditions, humidity readings... not only temperature ?

I only encounter graphs for how many average degrees versus decades. Nothing else varies or kept track ?

42 minutes ago, Externet said:

I only encounter graphs for how many average degrees versus decades. Nothing else varies or kept track ?

Not knowing where your encounters are happening, I wouid guess they are not with sources that give the broad scope of atmospheric science. Dozens of different metrics out there - sea ice, glaciers, foliage coverage, atmospheric gases, oceanic dissolved gases, average cloud cover, soot deposition, water/air/soil/permafrost temps, oceanic currents and turnover, albedo, growing season changes, wildfire incidence and severity, sea level, species habitat movements, storm frequencies and severity, coastal erosion, and that's just off the top of my head. There are others which all monitor change and volatility as more energy is injected into these complex systems. I hesitate to recommend NOAA, given the current idiot troll fascist trying to undermine federal information websites, but I would guess they still have stuff like this up there. If not, we can still rely on European agencies, like Copernicus Climate Change Service or ESA (European Space Agency) Climate Change Initiative or European Environment Agency. All have public and searchable websites IIRC.

Just to offer a local example from my corner of the world - 50 years ago, the cold and aridity here meant no mosquitoes or termites. They just couldn't live here. Now they're moving in. And first and last frost dates, on average, have shifted to add one to two weeks of growing season in this general region. (In the US, land grant universities collect a lot of data on such metrics, due to their importance to agriculture and weather prediction)

Hope that provides you a few leads - I'm sure others will have some suggestions, too.

1 hour ago, Externet said:

Greetings.

First was called 'global warming', now a more generic 'climate change', like it is not only about getting hotter.

For the recent decades, what are the changes/variations/tendencies in average atmospheric pressure, ultraviolet index, ozone presence, geothermal activity, windy conditions, humidity readings... not only temperature ?

I only encounter graphs for how many average degrees versus decades. Nothing else varies or kept track ?

I expect there are stats on numbers and violence of hurricanes, floods and wildfires. Also household insurance payouts for natural disasters.

I don't have them to hand but maybe you could look up a few of those. I do know, from reading the Financial Times, that insurance companies are very concerned about climate change.

Average temperature is a global proxy for total thermal energy. It’s harder to present some of these other variables as “global” or things that would be affected by greenhouses gases (geothermal activity?)

Further, temperature is not just atmospheric - it’s tied in with surface temperature, i.e. land and water. Pressure isn’t going to show the same kind of variation because the atmosphere can expand and contract. Other variables don’t have the correlations that make looking at them as worthwhile for this analysis. Humidity is bounded and water vapor has a way of condensing and returning to the earth as rain. You might expect rainfall to have increased, but it’s a more variable parameter than temperature so is probably impacted more by having incomplete data.

You can see that rainfall above baseline has increased in the last ~60 years as opposed to the 60 before that - more years with excess, and increased amount of excess. Also the magnitude of the few years where there’s a shortfall, so it looks like the variability has increased

https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-us-and-global-precipitation

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