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Everything on Climate in Plain Sight, organised by topic.

Climate Impacts

• Climate Change and Extreme Weather: What We Know — Human-caused climate change changes the likelihood or intensity of many extremes rather than acting as the sole cause of every event.

Climate Action

• Climate Mitigation vs. Adaptation: Why We Need Both — Climate mitigation limits future change by reducing greenhouse-gas emissions or increasing durable removals.

Climate Basics

• The Greenhouse Effect Explained Without the Fog — The greenhouse effect is the process by which gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor absorb and re-emit some infrared energy leaving.
• Weather vs. Climate: The Difference That Matters — Weather is the short-term state of the atmosphere at a particular time and place, including rain, wind, and temperature.