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Record Nr.

UNINA9910146125303321

Titolo

Natural climate variability and global warming [[electronic resource] ] : a Holocene perspective / / edited by R.W. Battarbee and H.A. Binney

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2008

ISBN

1-282-03435-9

9786612034350

1-4443-0093-8

1-4443-0094-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BattarbeeR. W

BinneyH. A (Heather A.)

Disciplina

363.73874072

551.60901

Soggetti

Paleoclimatology - Holocene

Climatic changes - Research

Global warming - Research

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contributors; Abbreviations, acronyms,and terminology; 1Holocene climate variabilityand global warming; 2Holocene climate research -progress, paradigms, andproblems; 3The role of peoplein the Holocene; 4Modeling the climate ofthe Holocene; 5The early to mid-Holocenethermal optimum in theNorth Atlantic; 6Holocene climate changeand the evidence for solarand other forcings; 7Climate of the pastmillennium: combiningproxy data and modelsimulations; 8Latitudinal linkages in lateHolocene moisture-balancevariation; 9Holocene rapid land-coverchanges - evidence andtheory

10Holocene perspectiveson future climatechangeIndex

Sommario/riassunto

Whilst there is now overwhelming evidence that greenhouse-gas pollution is becoming the dominant process responsible for global warming, it is also clear that the climate system varies quite naturally on different time-scales. Predicting the course of future climate change consequently requires an understanding of the natural variability of the



climate system as well as the effects of human-induced change. This book is concerned with our current understanding of natural climate change, its variability on decadal to centennial time-scales, the extent to which climate models of different kinds s