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CHARLES lives in southern England.

Gender; Male.

Interests include; conservation, ecology, gardens, shotokan karate.

I mainly work on articles relating to southern England and rivers and Roman roads, plus anything else that catches my interest. I take lots of photos wherever I go to upload to commons.

Contemporary climate change involves rising global temperatures and significant shifts in Earth's weather patterns. Climate change is driven by emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane. Emissions come mostly from burning fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas), and also from agriculture, forest loss, cement production and steel making. Climate change causes sea level rise, glacial retreat and desertification, and intensifies heat waves, wildfires and tropical cyclones. These effects of climate change endanger food security, freshwater access and global health. Climate change can be limited by using low-carbon energy sources such as wind and solar energy, by forestation, and shifts in agriculture. Adaptations such as coastline protection cannot by themselves avert the risk of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts. Limiting global warming in line with the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement requires reaching net-zero emissions by 2050. This animation, produced by NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio with data from the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, shows global surface temperature anomalies from 1880 to 2023 on a world map, illustrating the rise in global temperatures. Normal temperatures (calculated over the 30-year baseline period 1951–1980) are shown in white, higher-than-normal temperatures in red, and lower-than-normal temperatures in blue. The data are averaged over a running 24-month window.Video credit: NASA; visualized by Mark SubbaRao
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Ocaasi t | c 21:13, 18 February 2013 (UTC)


The Copyeditor's Barnstar
For the incredibly helpful work and time you put into getting Gungnyeo and Musuri to have clearer descriptions, I, award Charlesdrakew this copyeditor's barnstar. Thank you so much. Keep up the good work!Caspian blue 20:16, 27 February 2009 (UTC)


The Original Barnstar
For ORIGINALly helping me when I was a new Wikipedian. Thanks to you, I am where I am today. The Arbiter 23:45, 31 January 2010 (UTC)


The Original Barnstar
Please, accept this well-earned reward for your efforts here on Wikipedia, friend! May you continue to aid others and devote your fine skill to editing articles here! God bless you! Celestialwarden11 (talk) 21:33, 16 February 2010 (UTC)


The Civility Barnstar
I'm really impressed how you turned a tense situation regarding the Councils/tobacco situation into a way to welcome and teach a newbie. Cheers! A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 12:58, 16 September 2011 (UTC)


The Real Life Barnstar
You rock! Thanks for being an awesome Wikipedian and helping so much! Theopolisme (talk) 21:17, 4 April 2012 (UTC)


The Original Barnstar
Congratulations on hitting 25k in edits!! Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia, Charles :) SarahStierch (talk) 22:46, 6 September 2012 (UTC)


The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
Thanks Kisulius (talk) 08:46, 1 December 2012 (UTC)


Updated DYK query On May 8, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Western Weald, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Shubinator (talk) 23:33, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Updated DYK query On May 17, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article London to Brighton Way (Roman road), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Royalbroil 16:42, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

Updated DYK query On June 13, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article New Lipchis Way, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Mifter (talk) 05:28, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

Updated DYK query On July 30, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Chichester to Silchester Way, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Shubinator (talk) 01:29, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Updated DYK query On November 15, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article North Bridge, Halifax, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Materialscientist (talk) 07:21, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

Updated DYK query On November 21, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Dean Clough, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Materialscientist (talk) 19:14, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

Updated DYK query On January 29, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Borough Market, Halifax, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Materialscientist (talk) 18:01, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for this Victuallers (talk) 18:02, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

The DYK project (nominate) 12:04, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

The DYK project (nominate) 12:02, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

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