Decade-to-Century-Scale Climate Variability and Change A Science Strategy (1998) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction
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Better understanding and prediction are particularly important for climate variability over long time scales, since such change has the potential for surpassing the significant social, economic, and political impacts of shorter-scale variations, which are often addressed through disaster relief. Over decades to centuries, the impacts of climate change can be considerable, and adaptation and mitigation (of both the forcing and the response)
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Flexibility and adaptability in response to new opportunities and promising directions will be imperative if we are to optimally advance our understanding of medium- and long-range climate change and variability. Second, the paradigm developed for the study of climate change on seasonal-to-interannual time scales cannot be applied to the study of climate problems on longer time scales.
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Predicting and assessing the consequences of climate change and climate variability over dec-cen time scales will involve considerable scientific breadth: observing past, present, and future climate; understanding the processes of natural and anthropogenic change and variability; and modeling variability and change through a hierarchy of approaches. Potential consequences can be properly addressed only within the holistic perspective afforded by such breadth.
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