California's building standards have helped save businesses and residents more than $15.8 billion in electricity and natural gas costs since 1975, and these savings are expected to climb to $59 billion by 2011 (CEC 2003).
Diseases like dengue fever are expanding their reach northward in the U.S. butterflies are relocating to higher latitudes. The Edith's Checkerspot butterfly of western North America has moved almost 60 miles north in 100 years.
Fires due to dry conditions and record-breaking heat consumed 20% of Samos Island, Greece, last July.
The multinational Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA) report recently concluded that in Alaska, western Canada, and eastern Russia, average temperatures have increased as much as 4 to 7 degrees Fahrenheit (3 to 4 degrees Celsius) in the past 50 years. The rise is nearly twice the global average.
A vehicle that gets 30 MPG will cost you $650 less to fuel each year than one that gets 20 MPG (assuming 15,000 miles of driving annually and a fuel cost of $2.60). Over a period of 5 years, the 30 MPG vehicle will save you $3,250.
Greenland's ice sheet will begin to melt if the temperature there rises by 3 degrees Celsius (5.4 degrees Fahrenheit). That is something many scientists think is likely to happen in another hundred years.
Crops withered and Dallas temperatures topped 100 degrees F for 29 days straight in a Texas hot spell that struck during the summer of 1998.
Pacific salmon populations fell sharply in 1997 and 1998, when local ocean temperatures rose 6 degrees F.
