Climate Change Analysis (CCA)

Rohit Reddy k
Sacred Heart University
Fairfield, CT USA
kakir@mail.sacredheart.edu

Abstract — Climate change is one of the most pressing

issues of our time, with potentially far-reaching economic
consequences.
This study aims to analyze the relationship between climate
variables and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to better
understand the drivers of climate change. The research
question focuses on exploring the correlation between these
variables using a correlation analysis. The study draws upon
previous literature on climate change and correlation analysis
techniques. The methodology includes data collection and
cleaning, exploratory data analysis, and correlation analysis.
The results indicate a strong positive correlation between GHG
emissions and temperature anomalies, as well as other climate
variables such as atmospheric CO2 concentrations and ocean
heat content. The findings highlight the urgent need to reduce
GHG emissions to mitigate the impacts of climate change.

INTRODUCTION
Fig: Correlation Table and Plot for Each Variable
Climate change is a complex global challenge that poses
significant risks to human and environmental systems. One
of the primary drivers of climate change is the increase in
GHG emissions, primarily from human activities such as This system can be used in sectors like air traffic,
burning fossil fuels and deforestation. GHG emissions
contribute to global warming and other climate changes, marine, agriculture, forestry, military, navy, and individuals.
which have a wide range of impacts, including sea-level People can find the data for further analysis in the NOAA,
rise, droughts, floods, and more frequent and severe weather GISS, and Crudata
events. Understanding the relationship between climate
variables and GHG emissions is critical to developing REFERENCES
effective climate change mitigation and adaptation
strategies. The research question for this study is to analyze [1] Kaggle – Datasets
the correlation between climate variables and GHG
emissions to predict the impacts of climate change. The [2] MEI: https://psl.noaa.gov/enso/mei/data/meiv2.data
column names are:
[3] CO2: https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/gl_data.html
1. Year: The observation year
[4] CH4:
2. Month: The observation month https://gml.noaa.gov/webdata/ccgg/trends/ch4/ch4_m
3. Temp: The difference between the average global m_gl.txt
temperature in that period and a reference value.
4. CO2: Atmospheric concentrations of carbon [5] N2O:
dioxide. https://gml.noaa.gov/webdata/ccgg/trends/n2o/n2o_m
m_gl.txt
5. N2O: Atmospheric concentrations of nitrous oxide.
6. CH4: Atmospheric concentrations of methane. [6] CFC-11:
7. CFC11: Atmospheric concentrations of https://gml.noaa.gov/aftp/data/hats/cfcs/cfc11/combin
trichlorofluoromethane. ed/HATS_global_F11.txt
8. CFC12: Atmospheric concentrations of
dichlorodifluoromethane. [7] CFC-12:
https://gml.noaa.gov/aftp/data/hats/cfcs/cfc12/combin
9. Aerosols: The mean stratospheric aerosol optical
ed/HATS_global_F12.txt
depth at 550 nm (affect how much of the sun's
energy is reflected into space)
[8] Aerosols:
10. TSI: Total solar irradiance (TSI) - the rate at which https://data.giss.nasa.gov/modelforce/strataer/tau.line
the sun's energy is deposited per unit area. _2012.12.txt
11. MEI: Multivariate El Nino Southern Oscillation
[9] Temp:
index (MEI), a measure of the strength of the El
Nino/La Nina-Southern Oscillation https://crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data//temperature/HadC
RUT5.0Analysis_gl.txt