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Climate change has largely become a synonym for unsustainable behaviour of mankind, although there must be climate change without any human interference, because the strongly differing time-scales of climate system components like atmosphere, ocean, vegetation, land-ice, and distribution of continents provoke changes in mean values and statistics of deviations from these means on all time-scales longer than the slowest component’ s turn around time (hundreds of millions of years for continents). The problem to be discussed is therefore only the difference in the rate of change between anthropogenic and natural climate change, including the effects of interactions between both and accounting for the strong climate variability on time-scales of interest for the society.
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Grassl, H. (1999). The Science and Impacts of Climate Change — Conclusions from the Second IPCC Assessment Report. In: Hohmeyer, O., Rennings, K. (eds) Man-Made Climate Change. ZEW Economic Studies, vol 1. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-47035-6_2
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