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Facts and resources about climate change, covering science, politics and economics
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Interactive: Our one-stop guide to the facts of global warming, from the science and politics to economics and technology -
Introduction
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The Guardian is setting out to create world's best layman-friendly guide to all aspects of climate change – and we need your help -
Editors' picks
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The first answer in The ultimate climate change FAQ
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Rising sea levels, retreating snow cover and glaciers, longer growing seasons and shifting wildlife are indications of a warming world
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The world's most respected scientific bodies have stated that there is strong evidence that humans are driving the warming
Most recent
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4 Jan 2012:Computer models are one of the tools that scientists use to understand and make projections about climate change
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15 Dec 2011:
As the world warms, rainfall will increase overall but changes in distribution will increase droughts as well as floods
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14 Dec 2011:
The global warming trend is clear, but natural climate variability means that some weather events appear to contradict it
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6 Dec 2011:
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a UN body which evaluates climate change science
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14 Nov 2011:
From temperatures to trajectories: how to make sense of the baffling world of climate change targets
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1 Nov 2011:
Thorium is a radioactive chemical element that could in theory be used to generate large quantities of low-carbon electricity in future decades
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29 Sep 2011:
The Little Ice Age was a cold spell that ran from around 1300 to the mid-1800s
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26 Sep 2011:
Low-carbon souces currently account for a minority of global energy consumption
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23 Sep 2011:
An ever-evolving industry, bioenergy is hailed by some as the future of renewable energy – but it is also the subject of much criticism
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26 Jul 2011:
The Kyoto protocol established mechanisms to help countries meet binding greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets
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5 Jul 2011:
Emissions trading is a market-based approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions
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7 Jun 2011:
Europe's emissions trading scheme is the world's biggest, but it has been beset by problems
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1 Jun 2011:
Climate change may affect the distribution of tornadoes, but they are not expected to become much more frequent
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11 May 2011:
Climate change may bring some benefits, but they will most likely be unevenly shared and offset by negative impacts
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5 May 2011:
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