Reflecting the huge level of interest - and importance - of climate change there have been a huge number of scientific papers (likely ~250,000) published on the subject to date.

Keeping on top of the advances in knowledge around climate change then is a massive task and one that very challenging.

This section contains an on-going series of occasional background articles on aspects of climate change that I have looked at.

This content is provided in the form of links to two sets of documents; the unabridged papers (typically 20 - 30 pages) and summaries of these (the first two summaries are significantly longer 2700 - 3800 words than subsequent ones, which are generally copies of the Summary section of the background papers and less than 1000 words)

While every endeavour is made to keep this content current the amount of new climate change research emerging means that this cannot be guaranteed