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Tomorrow's Climate - Today's Challenge

Understand climate change

To communicate about climate change successfully, it's important that you understand the nature of the climate change challenge.

This section will help you improve your knowledge of the science and solutions, the facts, myths and history of climate change – and what it means for the UK.

What is climate change?

A simple explanation to help you understand the key issues.

Key climate facts

Find evidence or quotes to support climate change communications.

Challenging myths

Find out the truth behind many misunderstandings about climate change.

A brief history of climate change

Trace the history of climate change over the last 250 years.

UK climate change

What will climate change mean for the UK?

Find out more

Links to other websites that can help you understand climate change.

Latest information

Read the book 'Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change' published after the international science conference in Exeter in 2005.

Read the UK's latest climate change policies