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== Examples of climate change ==

[[Image:Extreme-weather-cost.gif|thumb|right|250px|The cost of extreme weather is rising rapidly and could reach 350 billion 2001 U.S. dollars '''per year''' by 2025. [http://www.ipcc.ch/present/graphics/2001syr/small/08.17.jpg source data: IPCC, 2001]. Most of the cost increase is due to added exposure such as building on the coast.]]

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.