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Climate Science: Frequently Asked Questions from the IPCC

Some basics of the science of climate change.
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Please note that this material is from the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Working Group 1, published in 2007. The latest climate science can be found inthe IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report, published in August 2021. For other reports and further updates, please refer to theIPCC website.

If you are not a climate scientist or meteorologist yourself but you need to engage them and/or the data visualisations (graphs & maps) and the information they produce and make available in scientific papers, assessment reports and web portals, then it may be useful to familiarise yourself with some basics of the science of climate change.

Working Group 1 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a large group of the top scientists internationally doing research on the climate system, put together a set of frequently asked questions (FAQs) that provide a very useful starting point. Here is a list of the questions they address and a link to a short version of the answers they provide.

Reference

IPCC, 2007: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment, Report of the Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change [Solomon, S., D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K.B. Averyt, M.Tignor and H.L. Miller (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA.

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