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Published: November 7, 2010

IGBP climate change index

Global-change trends for the public and policymakers
Launched in Copenhagen, 9 December 2009
The IGBP Climate-Change Index brings together key indicators of global change: atmospheric carbon dioxide, temperature, sea level and sea ice. It will be released annually.

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  • The index gives an annual snapshot of how the planet's complex systems - the ice, the oceans, the land surface and the atmosphere - are responding to the changing climate.
  • The index rises steadily from 1980 - the earliest date the index has been calculated.
  • The change is unequivocal, it is global, and it is in one direction.

The index as a line graph

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The index as a table including cumulative change

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