Climate known: Greenhouse gases are warming the planet
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This week's magazine
22 October 2011
Issue 2835
Editor's picks
Climate unknown: How much greenhouse gas to expect
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Earth
Climate known: Other pollutants are cooling the planet
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Earth
Climate known: The planet is going to get a lot hotter
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Earth
Climate unknown: How great our cooling effects are
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Earth
Climate unknown: Just how much hotter things will get
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Earth
Climate unknown: How things will change in each region
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Earth
Climate known: Sea level is going to rise many metres
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Earth
Climate unknown: How quickly sea level will rise
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Earth
Climate known: There will be more floods and droughts
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Earth
Climate unknown: How serious the threat to life is
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Earth
Climate unknown: Will there be more hurricanes?
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Earth
Climate unknown: If and when tipping points will come
Features
Physics
Quantum hackers: Cracking the uncrackable code
Features
Health
Code red: Repairing blood in the emergency room
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Table of contents
News
Health
Guns kept at home are hurting US kids
Loaded guns left where kids can reach them may be contributing to the high level of firearms injuries to children in the US
News
Independence day looms for Galileo
News
App tracks ROSAT satellite’s crash to Earth
News
Health
Drug addicts switch to inject in economic decline
News
Texas officials censored climate change report
News
60 Seconds
News
Physics
Neutrino watch: Speed claim baffles CERN theoryfest
News
Earth
Forest loggers join world’s biggest ecology experiment
News
Physics
Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world
News
Physics
A better way to price the future takes hold
News
Life
Wolf packs don’t need to cooperate to make a kill
News
Space
Spaceport America conjures up spine-tingling future
News
Life
Water’s quantum weirdness makes life possible
News
Health
Unbearable itch may no longer be a pain in anaesthesia
News
Earth
Clean air fixes cold poles in model of ancient climate
News
Life
Volcano-eating beavers evolved thicker teeth
News
Life
Snake stores sperm for five years before giving birth
News
Non-genetic changes for long life passed onto offspring
News
Health
Sickle cell disease cured by gene knock-out
News
Pluto’s rival is tinier but shinier than thought
News
Earth
Himalayas could become the Saudi Arabia of solar
News
Physics
Artificial crystals get their own textbook laws
News
Life
Oldest artist’s workshop in the world discovered
News
Technology
Smarter cameras help you take slicker snaps
News
Technology
Robot Venus flytraps could eat bugs for fuel
News
Technology
Smart software cracks sound-based CAPTCHA security
News
Technology
Electronic navigation charts could save ships
News
Earth
Wind turbine blades reach out to catch the breeze
News
Opinion
The biggest climate change uncertainty of all
Uncertainty is built into science, and climate change is no different. But the greatest uncertainty about it is outside the realm of science
Opinion
Economics joins the real world, at last
Opinion
World’s first fat tax: what will it achieve?
Opinion
Space
Rover scientist: Why I’m spending 13 days underwater
Opinion
Physics
How mathematical modelling seduced Wall Street
Opinion
Features
Climate known: Greenhouse gases are warming the planet
From melting glaciers and earlier springs to advancing treelines and changing animal ranges, many lines of evidence back up what thermometers tell us
Features
Climate unknown: How much greenhouse gas to expect
Features
Earth
Climate known: Other pollutants are cooling the planet
Features
Earth
Climate known: The planet is going to get a lot hotter
Features
Earth
Climate unknown: How great our cooling effects are
Features
Earth
Climate unknown: Just how much hotter things will get
Features
Earth
Climate unknown: How things will change in each region
Features
Earth
Climate known: Sea level is going to rise many metres
Features
Earth
Climate unknown: How quickly sea level will rise
Features
Earth
Climate known: There will be more floods and droughts
Features
Earth
Climate unknown: How serious the threat to life is
Features
Earth
Climate unknown: Will there be more hurricanes?
Features
Earth
Climate unknown: If and when tipping points will come
Features
Physics
Quantum hackers: Cracking the uncrackable code
Features
Health
Code red: Repairing blood in the emergency room
Features
