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

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

• The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says carbon dioxide is the greenhouse gas that has contributed the most to global warming, followed by methane.
• At 2°C of global warming, extreme temperatures are expected to happen five times more often and to be 2.6°C hotter, according to IPCC.
• Extreme precipitation events become seven percent more intense with every additional degree of global warming.
• The United Nations says that as carbon dioxide emissions rise, the ocean and land will be less effective at absorbing and slowing the accumulation of Co2 in the atmosphere.
• Limiting human-induced global warming requires limiting cumulative carbon dioxide emissions, reaching at least net zero. Strong reductions in other greenhouse gas emissions such as methane would also be required.