Climate change in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Climate change is affecting locations like Baton Rouge in a variety of ways. In summer, these impacts include more intense hurricanes and greater health risks from humid heat.
Explore these pages to learn how people in Baton Rouge are at risk in a warming world.
Baton Rouge's climate threats in include:
Explore some ways climate change is affecting Baton Rouge in summer
Threats to coastal wetlands
Sea level rise threatens wetlands.
More record heat
Daily heat records have outnumbered daily cold records in recent years.
More intense hurricanes
Warmer oceans from climate change fuel stronger hurricanes.
More dangerous heat
Climate change is driving hotter, longer, and more frequent extreme heat.
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