Here's What The Grim Reality Of Climate Change Looked Like In 2020

Steve Krofchik of Las Vegas keeps cool with a bottle of ice on his head as the thermometer reads 130 degrees at the Furnace Creek Visitor Center in Death Valley, California, Aug. 17.

A rainbow appears over flooded fields in the Wye Valley, near the hamlet of Wellesley, following Storm Dennis on Feb. 17 in Hereford, England. Storm Dennis was the second named storm to bring extreme weather in a week.

A man walks across a washed-out West Saginaw Road in Sanford, Michigan, on May 21 after central parts of the state were hit with flooding and damage from heavy rains.

Residents ride a boat past a damaged and flooded house near Poyang Lake in Shangrao, China, July 15. The vast Yangtze drainage area had been lashed by torrential rains since the previous month, leaving 141 people dead or missing and forcing the evacuation of millions more across several provinces.

A man scoops leaked oil from the vessel MV Wakashio, belonging to a Japanese company but Panamanian-flagged, that ran aground near Blue Bay Marine Park off the coast of south-east Mauritius, Aug. 8.

In this aerial image, damaged grain bins are shown at the Heartland Co-Op grain elevator on Aug. 11 in Luther, Iowa. Gov. Kim Reynolds said early estimates indicate 10 million acres — nearly one-third of the state's land used for crops — were damaged when a powerful storm battered the region a day earlier.

Buildings and homes are flooded in the aftermath of Hurricane Laura on Aug. 27 near Lake Charles, Louisiana.

A man uses a garden hose to drench his house before being evacuated as a wildfire burns in La Couronne, near Marseille, France, Aug. 4.

Inmate firefighters arrive at the scene of the Water fire, about 20 miles from the Apple fire in Whitewater, California, Aug. 2.

A boat motors by the Bidwell Bar Bridge, surrounded by fire in Lake Oroville during the Bear fire in Oroville, California, Sept. 9.

Under darkened, hazy red skies from wildfire smoke, a waiter carries a tray to people having lunch at the Buena Vista café in San Francisco, Sept. 9.

The aftermath of forest fires in the Pantanal area of Mato Grosso, Brazil.

In this aerial photo, fire retardant blankets leveled homes in Talent, Oregon on Sept. 15 after the Almeda Fire tore through the area.

A reddish tint is seen near the "Spiral Jetty" along the shore of the Great Salt Lake in Howell, Utah, Oct. 8. The red hue of the lake's North Arm comes from halophilic bacteria, which flourishes when the salt level rises.

This aerial view shows the damage in Saint-Martin-Vésubie in southeastern France on Oct. 3, after heavy rains and flooding hit the Alpes-Maritimes region.

An ambulance makes it through the flooded Green Road in Dhaka, Bangladesh, after heavy rains.

A dried-up pond on farmland outside Senekal, South Africa, Oct. 15.

People gather their belongings outside a flooded house after heavy rains caused the Carapo river to overflow in Rubio, Venezuela, Nov. 9.

Damaged vehicles in a flooded seaside area following heavy rainfall in the village of Gournes on the Greek island of Crete, Nov. 10.

A woman waits for people to fix her house after Hurricane Iota passed through Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, Nov. 17.

Rescuers pull a rubber boat carrying residents through a flooded street after Typhoon Vamco hit in Marikina City, Manila, Nov. 12.

A rescuer carries a baby as floodwaters rise in a submerged village, as Typhoon Vamco hits, Nov. 12. The storm battered the country, causing widespread flooding and destruction in areas still reeling from the effects of Typhoon Goni.

Vehicles are submerged by the Chamelecón River due to heavy rain caused by Hurricane Iota in La Lima, Honduras, Nov. 19.

Dead spruces stand in a forest area with healthy coniferous and deciduous trees as climate change has a significant impact on forests in Germany. Due to droughts during the growth phases, trees in many regions have fewer leaves and needles.

Icebergs near Ilulissat, Greenland.