Climate variability and change: Difference between revisions

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For additional discussion of feedbacks relevant to ongoing climate change, see here: [http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/260.htm].

== Examples of climate change ==

Climate change has continued of through out the entire history of Earth. In addition to modern observations of climate, the field of [[paleoclimatology]] has provided information of climate change in the ancient past. Obviously, most of these changes are solely the result natural factors.#Climate of the deep past

#Climate of the deep past

#*[[Faint young sun paradox]]

#*[[Snowball earth]]

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#*[[Global warming]]

==Interesting Fact==

The British Observer newspaper reported in 2004 on a secret U.S. Pentagon study warning of the possibility "that European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a 'Siberian climate' as early as the first half of this century." The Pentagon's report apparently also predicts the possibility of nuclear wars, megadroughts, famine, and rioting across the world, in reaction. The authors of the study, including CIA consultant Peter Schwartz, a former head of planning at Royal Dutch/Shell, argued that climate change "should be elevated beyond a scientific debate to a U.S. national security concern."

== References ==