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description: Projected late 21st century changes in precipitation. Confidence is higher in hatched areas. file name: 2-National-pg-31.jpg credits: U.S. Global Change Research Program (www.globalchange.gov) / NCU copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use	description: Pine beetle kill in a forest file name: 98328da_mattmangum.jpg credits: Creative Commons mattmangum copyright terms: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic
description: Anomalous number of days with maximum surface temperatures reaching 34°C for June-August 2003. Anomalies are departures from the 1971–2000 base period daily means. file name: bams_2003.jpg credits: Levinson and Waple, 2004 copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use	description: Bar chart showing the relative increase of record high maximum temperatures compared to record low minimum temperatures file name: big_recordhighs.jpg credits: © UCAR / graphic by Mike Shibao copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use
description: Conceptual graphic showing many of the influences on climate file name: climate_influences.jpg credits: © The COMET Program copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use	description: A temperature outlook, issued on March 15, 2012, that shows how human-produced greenhouse gases were expected to change the odds that April 2012 would be as warm as the top five Aprils in the reference period (1960–2011). file name: CSAG_model.jpg credits: CSAG, University of Cape Town copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use
description: Rain in the city file name: DI00383.jpg credits: © UCAR / NCU copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use	description: Car buried in a snowbank file name: DI00562.jpg credits: © UCAR / NCU copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use
description: Cars buried from a heavy snowfall file name: DI01165.jpg credits: © UCAR / Photo by Bob Henson / NCU copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use	description: Sun behind clouds file name: DI01580.jpg credits: © UCAR / NCU copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use
description: Climate model grid, representing surface and atmospheric layers file name: DI02400.jpg credits: © UCAR / NCU copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use	description: Neighborhoods flooded as a result of Hurricane Katrina. A break in a retaining wall allows more water to flow into areas already overrun with water. file name: fema_19209.jpg credits: Jocelyn Augustino /FEMA copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use
description: A Red Cross volunteer comforts the sister of fire victim, while friends and volunteers sift through the resident's home searching for valuables. file name: fema_33426.jpg credits: Andrea Booher /FEMA copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use	description: Thermometer reading 110 degrees F file name: flckr_thermometer.jpg credits: Creative Commons David Reeves / NCU copyright terms: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic
description: Oklahoma tornado file name: flckr_tornado.jpg credits: NOAA copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use	description: Water drips from an icicle file name: flickr_drip.jpg credits: Creative Commons Chiot's Run / NCU copyright terms: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 Generic
description: Dried ground leading to a shrinking water source file name: flickr_drought.jpg credits: Creative Commons rahook2000 / NCU copyright terms: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic	description: City snowplows parked in a garage, awaiting a snowstorm file name: flickr_plows.jpg credits: Creative Commons VeloBusDriver copyright terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
description: Thermometer reading 110 degrees F file name: flickr_thermometer_lg.jpg credits: Creative Commons David Reeves / NCU copyright terms: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic	description: Graphs comparing temperature observations (black line) from 1890-2000 with climate model simulations. The simulations that have only natural climate influences (blue lines) do not replicate the temperature pattern of the last 50 years. Including human contributions of greenhouse gases and sulfate aerosol pollution in the models (yellow lines) produces results that simulate the observations well. file name: globalavgtemps.jpg credits: Meehl, G.A. and co-authors 2004: Combinations of Natural and Anthropogenic Forcings and 20th Century Climate. J. Climate, 17, 3721-3727 / NCU copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use
description: A view of the atmosphere above the Wester Hemisphere from space. file name: globe_west_540.jpg credits: NASA copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use	description: Hand holding dry dirt in a corn field file name: hand_dirt.jpg credits: Dolores Kiessling copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use
description: MODIS image of Hurricane Katrina prior to landfall on August 28, 2005. file name: Katrina_MODIS_August_28_2005.jpg credits: NASA copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use	view/save .swf file description: Land surface temperature anomalies for a given month (March) compared to the average conditions during that period between 2000-2008. Places that were warmer than average are red, places that were near normal are white, and places that were cooler than average are blue. file name: MOD_LSTAD_M.swf credits: NASA's Earth Observatory copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use
description: Photo of the Mississippi River overflowing and submerging agricultural fields in Spring 2011 along the border between Tennessee and southeastern Missouri file name: nasa_flood2011.jpg credits: NASA’s Earth Observatory copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use	description: Satellite view of Hurricane Katrina taken on August 28, 2005 file name: nasa_hurricane_catarina.jpg credits: Creative Commons NASA Goddard Photo and Video copyright terms: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic
description: View of Hurricane Claudette (2003) from space file name: NASA_VisibleEarth_HurricaneClaudette.jpg credits: The Visible Earth/NASA copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use	description: Part of two conceptual graphics showing how climate change might increase the mean in the probability distribution of weather events file name: prob_a1.jpg credits: © The COMET Program copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use
description: Part of two conceptual graphics showing how climate change might increase the mean in the probability distribution of weather events file name: prob_a2.jpg credits: © The COMET Program copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use	description: Part of two conceptual graphics showing how climate change might increase the variance in the probability distribution of weather events file name: prob_b1.jpg credits: © The COMET Program copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use
description: Part of two conceptual graphics showing how climate change might increase the variance in the probability distribution of weather events file name: prob_b2.jpg credits: © The COMET Program copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use	description: Part of two conceptual graphics showing how climate change might increase both the mean and the variance in the probability distribution of weather events file name: prob_c1.jpg credits: © The COMET Program copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use
description: Part of two conceptual graphics showing how climate change might increase both the mean and the variance in the probability distribution of weather events file name: prob_c2.jpg credits: © The COMET Program copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use	description: Dec 2010-Feb 2011 Statewide Temperature Ranks file name: ranks_201012-201102.jpg credits: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use
description: Dec 2011-Feb 2012 Statewide Temperature Ranks file name: ranks_201112-201202.jpg credits: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use	description: Temperature anomalies for the Russian Federation from July 20–27, 2010, compared to temperatures for the same dates from 2000 to 2008. file name: russia_2010.jpg credits: NASA's Earth Observatory copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use
description: Aerial view of sea ice and icebergs viewed from a plane flying to Antarctica from Christchurch, New Zealand, at 20,000 feet. file name: seaiceandicebergs.jpg credits: Opher Ganel, University of Maryland, National Science Foundation copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use	description: Photo of waves in the deep ocean file name: sea_waves.jpg credits: Photograph by Bruce Molnia/U.S. Geological Survey copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use
description: A picture of drought cracks in mud file name: UCAR_drought_DI01668.jpg credits: © UCAR / NCU copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use	description: Heavy rain along the Outer Banks of North Carolina. file name: UCAR_hurricanerain_DI01681.jpg credits: © UCAR / NCU copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use
description: Heavy rain falling near isolated trees. file name: Wiki_Heavy_Rain.jpg credits: Public Domain copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use