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This article discusses the phenomenon and mechanisms of climate change and the models used to study climate dynamics and predict future climate change. It describes past climate variations on the geological timescales reconstructed using paleoclimatological methods and a more recent climate change derived from observations. The article presents the scientific basis and the spectrum of existing climate models. An overview of modeling predictions of future climate change is given and principal uncertainties associated with climate predictions are discussed. ...
Encyclopedia of Ecology, 2008, Pages 603–612

Emanuel, K.(2008). Extreme Events. In The Oxford Companion to Global Change. : Oxford University Press.

A broad understanding of the potential future with climate change is enhanced by multifaceted analyses, involving study of both biophysical and socioeconomic processes. Analysis of vulnerability and adaptive capacity to climate change are contributions of social science to climate change impacts research. Population growth and changing economic and technological conditions will interact with changing climate conditions to affect socioeconomic and ecological systems.
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2001, Pages 2003–2010

Rhythmic changes in climate include cyclic, predictable variations that are driven largely by astronomical influences, and which operate at frequencies that range from tens or hundreds of thousands of years (Milankovitch cycles) down to decadal and even annual wavelengths. Superimposed on these oscillations, however, are seemingly chaotic, often abrupt changes that are less well understood, but which appear to reflect mechanisms operating within the Earth–atmosphere system and cross critical thresholds. Understanding this complex climatic history is one of the major challenges facing Quaternary scientists today. It is doubly important because of the increasing array of evidence which indicates that the present climate is being increasingly affected by human activity. Introduces some of the key ideas that have emerged during the past 80 years and provide the long-term historical perspective that is essential for an informed evaluation of the mechanisms underlying recent climate change

The ostensibly large number of recent extreme weather events has triggered intensive discussions, both in- and outside the scientific community, on whether they are related to global warming. Here, we review the evidence and argue that for some types of extreme — notably heatwaves, but also precipitation extremes — there is now strong evidence linking specific events or an increase in their numbers to the human influence on climate. For other types of extreme, such as storms, the available evidence is less conclusive, but based on observed trends and basic physical concepts it is nevertheless plausible to expect an increase.
Nature Climate Change 2, 491–496 (2012)

Can violent hurricanes, floods and droughts be pinned on climate change? Scientists are beginning to say yes.
7 September 2011 | Nature 477, 148-149 (2011)

... Under a number of illustrative threshold criteria for both national and international climate action, we show that variability-driven uncertainty about local change, even in the face of a well-constrained estimate of global change, can potentially delay the time to policy implementation by decades. Because several decades of greenhouse gas emissions can have a large impact on long-term climate outcomes, there is substantial risk associated with climate policies driven by consensus among individuals who are strongly influenced by local weather conditions.Nature Climate Change, 4, 333–338 (2014)

Observational data show a continued increase of hot extremes over land during the so-called global warming hiatus. This tendency is greater for the most extreme events and thus more relevant for impacts than changes in global mean temperature.
Nature Climate Change 4, 161–163 (2014)

A report that assesses a decade of extreme events provokes thoughts on weather, climate change and what is to come.
Nature Climate Change 3, 689 (2013)

The new Hadley Centre system for attribution of weather and climate extremes provides assessments of how human influence on the climate may lead to a change in the frequency of such events. Two different types of ensembles of simulations are generated with an atmospheric model to represent the actual climate and what the climate would have been in the absence of human influence...........
Journal of Climate. Apr2014, Vol. 27 Issue 7, p2607-2621. 15p.

Attribution of extreme events shortly after their occurrence stretches the current state-of-theart of climate change assessment. To help foster the growth of this science, this article illustrates some approaches to answering questions about the role of human factors, and the relative role of different natural factors, for six specific extreme weather or climate events of 2011. Not every event is linked to climate change.
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. Jul2012, Vol. 93 Issue 7, p1041-1067. 27p.

This article takes stock of current knowledge of climate change and the response to this major problem affecting the environment and economic development. It begins with a brief review of climate change science and impacts as assessed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It then reports on the status of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Kyoto Protocol, and summarizes national commitments to making the effort required to mitigate climate change by limiting the emission of greenhouse gases. The main issues still to be addressed are identified, focusing in particular on carbon markets and adaptation funding. Future prospects are considered, including possible emissions targets for developing countries. The article thus focuses on the key issues of concern for developing countries. South African Journal of Science , 2005, Vol 101 , Issue 7 & 8 , p.355-364

McClanahan, Tim R., and Joshua Cinner. Adapting to a Changing Environment: Confronting the Consequences of Climate Change. : Oxford University Press, 2011-11-28. Oxford Scholarship Online

Anthropogenic climate change and anticipated adverse effects on human health as outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are taken as givens. A conceptual model for thinking about the spectrum of climate-related health risks ranging from distal and infrastructural to proximal and behavioural and their relation to the burden of disease pattern typical of sub-Saharan Africa is provided. The model provides a tool for identifying modifiable risk factors with a view to future research, specifically into the performance of interventions to reduce the impact of climate change.
South African Medical Journal , Vol 101 , Issue 11
Pages: 817-822

This contribution provides an overview of the nature of fluvial responses to short-term (mostly centennial to millennial scale) environmental forcing. Climate change is the dominant driver of such changes and can sometimes be highly abrupt.
from Encyclopedia of Quaternary Studies

A report has looked at which sections of the population are left most exposed to food shortages after extreme weather events. Extreme weather events leave populations with not enough food both in the short- and the long-term.

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