''Nature Climate Change'' is a monthly

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published by

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covering all aspects of research on

global warming In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system. Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes to ...

, the current

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, especially its effects. It was established in 2011 as the continuation of ''Nature Reports Climate Change'', itself established in 2007. Its first

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was Olive Heffernan and the journal's current

is Bronwyn Wake. According to the ''

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'', the journal had a 2020

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of 21.722.

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