Society today may be more vulnerable to global-scale, long-term, climate change than ever before. Even without any human influence, past records show that clima

This volume reflects the current state of scientific knowledge about natural climate variability on decade-to-century time scales. It covers a wide range of rel

Society today may be more vulnerable to global-scale, long-term, climate change than ever before. Even without any human influence, past records show that clima

This book describes thoroughly the North American Climate of the past 65 million years, with special emphasis on the last 21,000 years, as revealed by paleoclim

The proposed book is not only a tribute to the work of Brückner (and indeed also a personal tribute, since Brückner wrote his book at the Institute of Geograp