Climate change FAQ: what’s next?

More science? More on emissions or energy or economics? Tell us where we should we take the FAQs next • FAQ homepage • Read about the project Five months ago, we launched The ultimate climate change FAQ with an aim to build up an archive of answers to lessen the confusion surrounding global warming. Unlike most of the other background guides out there, we wanted the answers to be both accurate and lay-friendly, and to cover not just science but the whole topic, including impacts, economics, emissions sources, energy technologies and international negotiations. More than 750 of you have already submitted the questions that you’d like to see answered and although we’ve got a very long way to go, we have now dealt with many of the most frequently requested topics. The resulting collection of Q&As is, I hope, starting to grow into a genuinely useful resource. The answers so far have covered subjects ranging from big-picture background ( What exactly is the climate? , Are humans definitely causing global warming? ) and scientific context ( What is the carbon cycle? , How do volcanoes affect the climate? ) through to possible impacts ( Will rising seas put cities such as New York and London under water? , Will climate change cause wars? ), societal responses ( What is the economic cost of climate change? , What is the Kyoto protocol and has it made any difference? ) and proposed solutions ( What is carbon capture and storage? , What is geo-engineering? ). You can see a full list of questions and answers, arranged by topic, here . We feel the project is going well – and plenty of you are reading and sharing each article – but we’d love to get your feedback. And we want to know where you think we should be putting our energy going forward. More science? More impacts? More on emissions or energy or economics? Give us your thoughts in the comments thread below or – if you have a specific question that you’d like to see answered – submit it using the form under this post. The FAQ was designed to be a collaborative project, not just between Guardian readers and journalists, but also partners such as the Met Office (whose experts have been fact-checking our science questions) and the members of the Guardian Environment Network , who have been providing some of the content. We’ve also partnered with Rough Guides to reproduce some content from Bob Henson’s Rough Guide to Climate Change . If you think there’s a brilliant potential partner that we should be hooking up with – or indeed a way that the growing body of content could be more widely distributed – then let us know about that, too. We hope in the end that this resource will be useful far beyond the Guardian’s own site. Climate change Duncan Clark guardian.co.uk

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