Stabilising climate to avoid dangerous climate change
- a summary of relevant research at the Hadley Centre
This report shows possible results of rapid changes in components of the climate system, and discusses some of the uncertainties in deducing tolerable concentrations and emissions and how these might be managed.

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Uncertainty, risk and dangerous climate change
Recent research on climate change science from the Hadley Centre
December 2004
This new Hadley Centre report addresses the issue of uncertainty in climate model predictions. It also discusses several aspects of dangerous climate change, and the state of the climate during 2003 and 2004.

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Climate change observations and predictions:
Recent research on climate change science from the Hadley Centre, December 2003
This report attempts to answer three important questions: Is the climate changing? What has caused the climate to change? And how much do we expect the climate to change in future?

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Stabilisation and commitment to future climate change:
scientific results from the Hadley Centre, October 2002
The ultimate objective of the UN framework convention on climate change (UNFCCC) is to stabilise atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases 'at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic (human-induced) interference with the climate system'. In this report, we focus on some of the scientific issues associated with this aim.

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The Hadley Centre regional climate modelling system:
PRECIS update 2002
The Hadley Centre has developed a regional climate model that can be run on a PC and can be applied easily to any area of the globe to generate detailed climate-change predictions. The intention is to make this modelling system, PRECIS (Providing Regional Climates for Impacts Studies), freely available to groups of developing countries so that they can develop climate-change scenarios at national centres of expertise. This new brochure contains an updated description of PRECIS, together with additional examples of its use.

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