Glossary of climate change
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This glossary of climate change is a list of definitions of terms and concepts relevant to climate change, global warming, and related topics. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) use tens of acronyms and initialisms in documents relating to climate change policy. Template:AlphanumericTOC
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- CDM
- Clean Development Mechanism is an arrangement under the Kyoto Protocol allowing industrialised countries with a greenhouse gas reduction commitment (called Annex 1 countries) to invest in projects that reduce emissions in developing countries as an alternative to more expensive emission reductions in their own countries.
- CDR
- Carbon dioxide removal
- CER
- Certified Emission Reduction
- CFC
- Chlorofluorocarbon
- CF4
- Carbon tetrafluoride
- CH4
- Methane
- COP
- Conference of the Parties - the United Nations Climate Change Conference
- CO2
- Carbon dioxide
- C2F6
- Hexafluoroethane
- DER
- Distributed Energy Resources is a small-scale unit of power generation that operates locally and is connected to a larger power grid at the distribution level. DERs include solar panels, small natural gas-fueled generators, electric vehicles and controllable loads, such as HVAC systems and electric water heaters. An important distinction of a DER is that the energy it produces is often consumed close to the source.
- GCM
- General circulation model or global climate model
- GFDL
- Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
- GHG
- Greenhouse gas
- GWP
- Global warming potential
- HCFC
- Hydrochlorofluorocarbon
- HFC
- Hydrofluorocarbon
- H2O
- Water vapor
- IOD
- Indian Ocean Dipole
- IPO
- Interdecadal Pacific oscillation
- IPCC
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- MSL
- Mean Sea Level
- NCDS
- Nationally Determined Contributions (aka Paris Accord/Agreement)
- NAPA
- National Adaptation Programme of Action.
- NCAR
- National Center for Atmospheric Research
- NF3
- Nitrogen trifluoride
- N20
- Nitrous oxide
- OHC
- Ocean heat content
- O3
- (Tropospheric) Ozone
- RCP
- Representative Concentration Pathway
- REDD
- Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation mechanisms use market/financial incentives to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases from deforestation and forest degradation.
- Index of climate change articles
- Glossary of environmental science
- Glossary of meteorology
- Scientific consensus on climate change
- Timeline of environmental history
- The Climate Dictionary: An everyday guide to climate change by United Nations Development Programme
- Office for Climate Education glossary
- "The Words You Need To Know To Talk About Climate Change Today", dictionary.com (archive)
- IPCC,2021: AR6 WGI AnnexVII: Glossary
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- Environmental Terminology Discovery Service — EEA (multilingual environmental glossary in 28 languages: ar, bg, cs, da, de, el, en, es, et, eu, fi, fr, hu, is, it, lt, lv, mt, nl, no, pl, pt, ro, ru, sk, sl, sv, tr)
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >albedo
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Antarctic bottom water (ABW)
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Antarctic oscillation (AAO)
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >anthropogenic climate change
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >anthropogenic global warming (AGW)
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >anti-greenhouse effect
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Arctic amplification
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Arctic dipole anomaly
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Arctic oscillation (AO)
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Arctic shrinkage
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Argo
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Assigned amount unit
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO)
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >atmospheric window
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >attribution of recent climate change
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Biofuels
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Biomass
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Blytt–Sernander system
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Bunker fuels
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Callendar effect
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >cap and trade
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Capacity building
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >carbon cycle
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >carbon dioxide
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >carbon footprint
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >carbon offset
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >carbon sequestration
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >carbon sink
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >carbon tax
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >clathrate gun hypothesis
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >climate
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >climate change
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >climate change denial
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >climate change feedback
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >climate change mitigation
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >climate commitment
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Climate crisis
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >climate cycle
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >climate ethics
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >climate forcing
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >climate inertia
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >climate justice
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >climate legislation
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >climate model
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >climate movement
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >climate oscillation
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >climate resilience
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >climate sensitivity
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >climate stabilization wedge
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >climate system
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >climate variability
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >climatology
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Deforestation
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >dendroclimatology
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >detection and attribution
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >eco-efficiency
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Earth's atmosphere
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Earth's energy imbalance
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Earthshine
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >ecotax
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >emission intensity
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >emission inventory
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >emission standards
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >emissions trading
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >enteric fermentation
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >environmental crime
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >feedback
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >forest dieback
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >fossil fuel
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Freon
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >glacial earthquake
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >glacial motion
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >global cooling
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >global climate model (GCM)
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >global climate regime
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >global dimming
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >global warming (GW)
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >global warming controversy
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >global warming denial
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >global warming period
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >global warming potential
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >greenhouse debt
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >greenhouse effect
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >greenhouse gas
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >greenhouse gas inventory
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Gulf Stream
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >historical temperature record
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >hockey stick graph
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Holocene
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Holocene Climatic Optimum
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >IAS emissions
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >ice age
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >ice core
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >insolation
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >IMO
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >invasive species
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >iris hypothesis
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >irradiance
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >instrumental temperature record
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO)
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >IUCN
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Keeling Curve
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Kyoto Protocol
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Little Ice Age
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >magnetosphere
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Maunder Minimum
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >nonradiative forcing
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >North Atlantic Deep Water
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >North Atlantic oscillation
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >ocean heat content
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >ocean planet
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >orbital forcing
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >ozone
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >ozone depletion
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO)
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >paleoclimatology
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >polar amplification
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >radiative forcing
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >regime shift
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >removal unit
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >runaway greenhouse effect
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >sea level rise
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >season creep
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >slash and burn
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Snowball Earth
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >solar variation
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >solar wind
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >stranded asset
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >Stratospheric aerosol injection
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >thermohaline circulation
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >TEX-86
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >tipping points in the climate system
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >water vapor
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >with additional measures (WAM)
<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >with measures (WEM)
<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >without measures (WOM)
<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >weather
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<dt id="Script error: No such module "delink"." >World Climate Report
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