Climate Change: Evidence

Independent observations can constrain a climate explanation more strongly than one short record.

How to study this source

• How do we know Earth’s climate is changing?

  coreEvidence overview and the sections on warming, ice and sea level

  Independent observations can constrain a climate explanation more strongly than one short record.

Ideas and questions

Read background definitions when a term blocks the argument. Then return to the source and reconstruct its claim in your own words.

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