Climate Matters•November 5, 2025
Free Slide Deck | Climate Change: Key Facts
KEY FACTS
A free slide deck from Climate Central covers the key facts on climate change, its U.S. impacts, and science-based solutions for a safer future.
The slide deck is available in English and Spanish and features Climate Central’s graphics along with speaker notes that explain the science.
Each slide also includes links to learn more or easily customize the presentation with local graphics for 240+ U.S. cities.
Download, customize, and use this resource to learn about and share the facts on climate.
Sharing the facts about climate change
Climate Central created Climate Change: Key Facts, a free slide deck available in English and Spanish, using our library of Climate Matters content — all of which is reviewed by staff scientists in line with our high standards for accuracy and clarity.
The 72-slide presentation features Climate Central’s clear and compelling graphics. Speaker notes on each slide explain the science and include links to learn more and customize the presentation with local graphics for 240+ U.S. cities.
The presentation has three sections covering the latest science and data on:
The evidence for and drivers of human-caused climate change.
The impacts of climate change in the U.S., focusing on extreme weather.
Effective options to slow warming, adapt to current risks, and ensure a safer future.
Communication is a climate solution. Sharing the facts about climate change empowers people with knowledge to make informed decisions. Research suggests that communicating about the human causes of climate change can improve public understanding and engagement on the issue.
Download, customize, and use this slide deck
This resource and the content that it links to are all rigorously reviewed, free to use, and can be easily modified to reflect data and impacts relevant to 240+ U.S. cities. Here’s how:
Visit this Google Slides link in English or Spanish and save a copy or download as a PowerPoint or PDF
Check labeled slides for links to local or updated versions of graphics.
Explore Climate Central’s new location search tool to see which climate impacts are most relevant for your area.
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Where to start
This resource is built to encourage users to customize and arrange slides depending on the length and focus of a presentation.
For example, a five-minute presentation could:
Explain the greenhouse effect (slide 5) and show the surge in planet-warming CO2 (slide 7) and the resulting rise in global temperatures (slide 12).
Explain that relatively small increases in global average temperatures lead to large increases in risky extreme heat (slide 25).
Select from slides 26-57 to cover a few climate impacts that are most relevant to your local area.
End with a solution (slide 63), focusing on actions to curb carbon pollution from the top-emitting sector in your state.
A 20-minute presentation could:
Explain the greenhouse effect (slide 5) and show the surge in planet-warming CO2 (slide 7).
Cover where carbon pollution comes from in the U.S. (slide 10) and the related rise in global temperatures (slide 12) to record levels since 2015 (slide 13).
Explain that relatively small increases in global average temperatures lead to large increases in risky extreme heat (slide 25).
Select from slides 26-57 to cover a few climate impacts that are most relevant to your local area.
End by covering solutions, explaining that: the clean energy transition is underway (slide 61); there are ways to curb carbon pollution from the top-emitting sector in your state (slide 63); and that simply talking about climate change is an important part of raising awareness (slide 70).
Longer presentations could cover the whole deck, spending more or less time on impacts that will resonate with different audiences.
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