Natural Climate Variability and Global Warming: A Holocene Perspective

A growing body of scientific evidence suggests that greenhouse–gas pollution is largely responsible for global warming. Yet, it is also true that the climate system varies quite naturally on different time–scales. Accurately predicting the course of future climate change requires an understanding of the natural variability of the climate system, as well as the effects of human–induced change.
This ground–breaking book addresses predictable modification in the climate system in the context of global warming. Ideal for researchers and advanced students, it explores current thinking on natural climate change, the use of models to simulate past climate variability, and the role of past climate variability in explaining current changes to ecosystems and society over the later part of the Holocene.
The volume provides the groundwork for making critical decisions about the earth′s future, and contributes substantially to the ongoing debate over global warming and climate change.

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Contributors.
Abbreviations.
1. Holocene climate variability and global warming. Richard W. Battarbee.
2. Holocene climate research – progress, paradigms, and problems. H. John B. Birks.
3. The role of people in the Holocene. Frank Oldfield.
4. Modelling the climate of the Holocene. Michel Crucifix.
5. The early to mid–Holocene thermal optimum in the North Atlantic. Eystein Jansen, Carin Andersson, Matthias Moros, Kerim H. Nisancioglu, Birgitte F. Nyland, and Richard J. Telford.
6. Holocene climate change and the evidence for solar and other forcings. Juerg Beer and Bas van Geel.
7. Climate of the past millennium: combining proxy data and model simulations. Hugues Goosse, Michael E. Mann, and Hans Renssen.
8. Latitudinal linkages in late–Holocene moisture–balance variation. Dirk Verschuren and Dan J. Charman.
9. Holoc ene rapid land–cover changes – evidence and theory. Martin Claussen.
10. Holocene perspectives on future climate change. Ray Bradley.
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Nota biograficzna:
Rick Battarbee is Professor of Environmental Change and Director of the Environmental Change Research Centre at UCL. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Foreign Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and was the Chair of the European Science Foundation program “HOLIVAR.”
Heather Binney is a Research Fellow in the Environmental Change Research Centre, UCL. She is a palynologist with a special interest in pollen–vegetation relationships.

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A growing body of scientific evidence suggests that greenhouse–gas pollution is largely responsible for global warming. Yet, it is also true that the climate system varies quite naturally on different time–scales. Accurately predicting the course of future climate change requires an understanding of the natural variability of the climate system, as well as the effects of human–induced change.
This ground–breaking book addresses predictable modification in the climate system in the context of global warming. Ideal for researchers and advanced students, it explores current thinking on natural climate change, the use of models to simulate past climate variability, and the role of past climate variability in explaining current changes to ecosystems and society over the later part of the Holocene.
The volume provides the groundwork for making critical decisions about the earth′s future, and contributes substantially to the ongoing debate over global warming and climate change.