Energy & Science

The Climate Science You Missed

While you were worrying about other things 

The aftermath of Typhoon Molave.

Photographer: MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP

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The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report published in August ran to almost 4,000 pages, and it alone contains enough material to fill five years of science-you-missed columns. Don’t be fooled by its size, though. Climate change is still a simple problem with a conceptually simple solution.