Climate change publications
Current publications
Warming
Find out all you need to know about climate change, what it means for you and what you can do about it.
Warming (PDF, 1 MB)
Safe keeping
Protect your world with our climate science and services.
Safe keeping (PDF, 5. 2 MB - this is a large document and may take time to download)
COP15 Science — Driving our response to climate change
You can also download the COP15 ‘Science — Driving our response to climate change’ brochure, as a series of individual PDF files.
Informing mitigation (PDF, 3 MB)
Informing choices 1 — Mitigation (PDF, 2 MB)
Informing choices 2 — Adaptation (PDF, 3 MB)
COP14 Avoiding dangerous climate change
The latest results from the Met Office Hadley Centre add to the increasing evidence that early and rapid reductions in emissions are required to avoid significant impacts of climate change.
Avoiding dangerous climate change (PDF, 1.7 MB)
Make a difference to your climate with the Met Office
The purpose of this guide is to set out what’s really happening and how climate change will affect you.
Make a difference to your climate with the Met Office (PDF, 3.6 MB)
Climate change fact sheets
A collection of fact sheets on key climate change issues.
Coastal flooding (PDF, 319 kB)
Global equity and sustainable development (PDF, 199 kB)
Regional climate prediction (PRECIS) (PDF, 357 kB)
Quantifying risk (PDF, 284 kB)
Seasonal prediction of water resources (PDF, 476 kB)
Updating baseline climate (PDF, 264 kB)
Long term water resources (PDF, 503 kB)
Informing Government policy into the future
Setting out the key scientific questions which will be addressed by the Met Office’s Integrated Climate Programme. The programme underpins government policy and planning.
Climate research at the Met Office Hadley Centre. Informing Government policy into the future (PDF, 2.4 MB)
Academic papers and reports
Climate change technical notes
Past publications
The following older documents are currently being moved to an electronic archive.
Climate change and the greenhouse effect (2005) (PDF, 3.8 MB)
Previous editions of our COP brochures.
- COP12 (PDF, 1.2 MB)
- COP11 (PDF, 1.9 MB)
- COP10 (PDF, 4.0 MB)
- COP9 (PDF, 1.9 MB)
- COP8 (PDF, 1.72 MB)
- COP7 (PDF, 2.7 MB)
- COP6 (PDF, 1.3 MB)
- COP5 (PDF, 4.8 MB)
- COP4 (PDF, 415 kB)
- COP3 (PDF, 1.3 MB)
PRECIS publications
- Generating high-resolution climate change scenarios handbook (2004) (PDF, 3.3 MB)
- PRECIS 2002 update (PDF, 1047 kB)
- PRECIS 2001 update (PDF, 1.93 MB)
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