Answers to the FAQ listed below are provided by links to the Encyclopedia of the Earth.
1 - What is climate? =>>
2 - What is the climate system? =>>
3 - What factors determine earth's climate? =>>
4 - What is climate change? =>>
5 - What is the average temperature of the Earth now? =>>
6 - What is the greenhouse effect, and is it affecting our climate? =>>
7 - Are greenhouse gases increasing? =>>
8 - How do we know that the CO2 increase is caused by human activities? =>>
9 - What caused the Ice Ages before the Industrial Era? =>>
10 - Is the current climate change unusual in Earth's history? =>>
11 - Can the warming of the 20th century be explained by natural variability? =>>
12 - What is radiative forcing? =>>
13 - What is "abrupt climate change"? =>>
14 - What is global dimming and what relevance does it have to climate change? =>>
15 - How is precipitation changing? =>>
16 - Has there been a change in extreme events like heat waves, droughts, floods and hurricanes? =>>
17 - Is the amount of snow and ice on the Earth decreasing? =>>
18 - Is sea level rising? =>>
19 - Will ice sheets melt with climate change? =>>
20 - Are El Niņos related to Global Warming? =>>
21 - What are the shortcomings of climate models? =>>
22 - Don't all the government negotiations over wording make the IPCC report a political, not a scientific, document? =>>
23 - Weather forecasts aren't accurate for more than a few days ahead, so how can we possibly predict climate over the next 100 years? =>>
24 - Are climate change and ozone depletion part of the same thing? =>>
25 - Is there inconsistency between satellite records and surface measurements? =>>