Your Impact

What does this have to do with you?

Our Changing Climate

As you learned, barometric pressure affects the wind speed. The less pressure, the more wind. 

We wanted to know if climate change had any effect on barometric pressure.

We found that climate change does have an impact.


Warming air results in lower barometric pressure, which causes intense Nor'esters.

These storms are fascinating, but they are also dangerous. Every year there are many casualties from these fierce storms. People can get crushed, drowned, or freeze to death. These storms are dangerous and will become more frequent.  


This is one of the many dangerous impacts of climate change. 

What can you do?

Humans are the main reason for climate change, we need to take care of our planet.

You can...