List of illustrations
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Flattening the curve: comparing Covid-19 and climate change
© Statistically Insignificant by Raf S.
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The greenhouse effect
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Greenhouse gases and temperature for the past eight glacial cycles recorded in ice cores
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Mauna Loa observatory atmospheric carbon dioxide measurements
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Historic carbon dioxide emissions by region
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Historic global sinks and sources of carbon dioxide
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Guy Callendar’s 1938 global temperature compilation
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Variation of the Earth’s surface temperature over the last 150 years
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Land and ocean temperatures since 1850
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Northern Hemisphere temperature reconstruction for the last 2,000 years
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Global precipitation changes (1900–2018)
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Indicators of climate change
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Melting of Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets
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Global temperatures and carbon dioxide changes for the last 20,000 years
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Sunspot and global temperatures
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Generic structure of a global climate model
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The carbon cycle, in gigatonnes of carbon
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Radiative forcings between 1750 and 2018
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Future carbon-emission scenarios
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Climate model predictions compared with climate data (2000–20)
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Global temperatures, Arctic sea ice, and sea level in the 21st century
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Equilibrium climate sensitivity
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Global surface temperatures (1950–2300)
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Climate change, societal coping range, and extreme events
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Comparison of the 2003 heat wave with past and future summer temperatures
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Areas most at risk from sea-level rise
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Changes in cereal grain yields between 1980 and 2020
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Ocean acidification
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Tipping points in the climate system
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Greenhouse gas forcing and the response of the climate system
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Deep-ocean circulation changes depending on freshwater inputs
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Gas hydrates in a marine setting
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Carbon dioxide emissions per capita by country and population
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Potential future global warming based on different carbon emissions
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Achieving a 1.5°C world
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Country carbon dioxide emissions in percentages
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Model response strategies for future sea-level rise
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Lead times for response strategies to combat climate change
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Comparison of GDP and carbon-emission growth since 1971
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The range of geoengineering approaches
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Potential climate change solutions from the individual to global scale
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Global lifestyle carbon emissions by income group
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USA Today
cartoon of the Copenhagen climate conference
© Joel Pitt.