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Figure 1.1 Earth’s climate history, past 500 million years

Figure 1.1 (landscape) Earth’s climate history, past 500 million years

Figure 1.2 Temperature, GHGs, and population, Common Era

Figure 1.3 Radiative forcing of climate and temperature, Anthropocene

Figure 1.4 Radiative forcing of climate, various factors, Anthropocene

Figure 1.5 Temperature change profile, 19592012

Figure 1.6 Global carbon cycle, 1959present

Figure 1.7 Human fingerprint on rising CO2

Figure 1.8 Human fingerprint on hemispheric gradient of CO2

Figure 1.9 Global methane budget

Figure 1.10 The rise and fall of RF due to aerosols

Table 1.1 Global warming potentials

Table 1.2 Properties of long lived HFCs, PFCs, SF6, and NF3

Table 1.3 ΔRF values used in Fig 1.4