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This new edition (formerly titled Future Climates of the World) offers a state-of-the-art overview-based on the latest climate science modeling data and projections available-of our understanding of future climates.

Table of Contents

1. Climates of the Future

SECTION I: The Anthropocene 2. People, Policy and Politics in Future Climates 3. Urban Climates 4. Human Effects on Climate through Land Surface Modification

SECTION II: Time and Tide 5. Fast and Slow Feedbacks in Future Climates 6. Ocean Climates In The Future 7. Climatic Variability on Decadal to Century Time-Scales 8. The Future of the World’s Glaciers 9. Future Regional Climates

SECTION III: Looking Forward 10. Climate and weather extremes: observations, modelling and projections 11. Interaction Between Future Climate and Terrestrial Carbon and Nitrogen 12. Climate-chemistry interaction: Tropospheric ozone and sulfate aerosols 13. Climatic Effects of Changing Atmospheric Aerosol Levels

SECTION IV: Learning Lessons 14. Records from the Past, Lessons for the Future: what the palaeo-record implies about mechanisms of global change 15. Modeling the Past and Future Interglacials in Response to The Astronomical and Greenhouse Gas Forcing 16. Catastrophe: Extraterrestrial Impacts, Massive Volcanism and the Biosphere

SECTION V: Understanding the Unknowns 17. Expect the Unexpected: Future Climate Surprises 18. Earth’s Climate from Geophysiology to Earth System Science