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Introduction | |
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About the IPCC | |
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About the authors | |
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What is up with the weather (and the climate!)? | |
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Climate Change Basics | |
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The relative impacts of humans and nature on climate | |
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Taking action in the face of uncertainty | |
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Why is it called the greenhouse effect? | |
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Feedback loops compound the greenhouse effect | |
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What are the important greenhouse gases, and where do they come from? | |
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Isn't carbon dioxide causing the hole in the ozone layer? | |
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Greenhouse gases on the rise | |
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Couldn't the increase in atmospheric CO[subscript 2] be the result of natural cycles? | |
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It's getting hotter down here! | |
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Is our atmosphere really warming? | |
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Back to the future | |
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But weren't scientists warning us of an imminent Ice Age only decades ago? | |
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How does modern warming differ from past warming trends? | |
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What can a decade of western North American drought tell us about the future? | |
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What can the European heat wave of 2003 tell us about the future? | |
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A tempest in a greenhouse | |
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The vanishing snows of Kilimanjaro | |
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The day after tomorrow | |
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The last interglacial | |
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How to build a climate model | |
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Profile: James Hansen | |
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Comparing climate model predictions with observations | |
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Regional vs global trends | |
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"Fingerprints" distinguish human and natural impacts on climate | |
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Climate Change Projections | |
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How sensitive is the climate? | |
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Fossil-fuel emissions scenarios | |
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The next century | |
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The geographical pattern of future warming | |
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Carbon-cycle feedbacks | |
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Melting ice and rising sea level | |
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Future changes in extreme weather | |
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Stabilizing atmospheric CO[subscript 2] | |
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The Impacts of Climate Change | |
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The rising impact of global warming | |
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Is it time to sell that beach house? | |
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Ecosystems | |
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Coral reefs | |
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The highway to extinction? | |
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Profile: James Lovelock | |
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Too much and too little | |
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Is warming from carbon dioxide leading to more air pollution? | |
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War | |
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Famine | |
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...Pestilence and death | |
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Earth, wind, and fire | |
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Too wet and too hot | |
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The polar meltdown | |
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Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change | |
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Is global warming the last straw for vulnerable ecosystems? | |
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What is the best course for the coming century? | |
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It's the economy, stupid! | |
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A finger in the dike | |
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Water-management strategies | |
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A hard row to hoe | |
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Solving Global Warming | |
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Solving global warming | |
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Where do all those emissions come from? | |
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Keeping the power turned on | |
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On the road again | |
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Building green | |
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Industrial CO[subscript 2] pollution | |
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Greener acres | |
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Forests | |
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Waste | |
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Geoengineering | |
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But what can I do about it? | |
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What's your carbon footprint? | |
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Global problems require international cooperation | |
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Can we achieve sustainable development? | |
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The ethics of climate change | |
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The known unknowns and the unknown unknowns | |
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The urgency of climate change | |
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Glossary | |
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Index | |
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Picture Credits/Author Acknowledgements | |