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The complexities of climate change and its associated jargon can make it difficult to digest. TheCable’s climate quick facts will help to demystify these climate concepts through easy-to-understand and straight-to-the-point explanations.

Here are some to keep at the tip of your fingers:

• 1) Water vapour is the most abundant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere but it is not a direct cause of climate change, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
• 2) Carbon dioxide from human activities is increasing about 250 times faster than it did from natural sources after the last ice age, as stated by NASA.
• 3) Accurate record-keeping on global warming began in 1880, says The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
• 4) According to the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, extreme weather events like heatwaves, droughts and heavy precipitation are directly linked to climate change.
• 5)  Climate change encompasses not only rising average temperatures but also extreme weather events, rising seas, and shifting wildlife populations and habitats, according to National Geographic.