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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Damian Carrington, Anna Leach, Paul Scruton and Harvey Symons

The climate crisis explained in 10 charts

A boy walks on a boat on the dried bed of a part of Iraq's receding southern marshes.
A boy walks on a boat on the dried bed of a part of Iraq's receding southern marshes. Photograph: Asaad Niazi/AFP/Getty Images

The problem: rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere

The level of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, has been rising since the Industrial Revolution and is at its highest in about 4m years. The rate of the rise is even more striking, the fastest for 66m years, with scientists saying the world is in “uncharted territory”.

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