Climate Change: Evaluating recent and future climate change

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Frank Chambers, Michael Ogle
Taylor & Francis US, 2002 - 464 pages
This collection of papers is introduced by an overview of research into climate change. Each volume contains an introductory commentary presenting the major strengths and achievements of the papers, their weaknesses and limitations and points to follow-up work.

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an indicator of solar activity closely
7
Variability of the solar cycle length during the past five centuries
14
Comparison of proxy records of climate change and solar forcing
33
PART 3
36
Variation of cosmic ray flux and global cloud coverage
43
Comment on Variation of cosmic ray flux and global cloud
56
geomagnetic aa index
60
Climate forcings in the Industrial
79
PART 2
192
The Little Ice Age and Medieval Warm Period in the Sargasso Sea
211
a global
233
How warm was the Medieval Warm Period?
258
Twentieth century climatic warming in China in the context
276
Evidence from northwest European bogs shows Little Ice Age
293
The natural breakdown of the present interglacial and
317
how and when?
330

Evaluating sunclimate relationships since the Little Ice
90
Northern Hemisphere temperatures during the past
110
Relative impacts of humaninduced climate change and natural
119
Causes of twentiethcentury temperature change near
128
Solar cycle length and 20th century Northern Hemisphere
137
Excerpt from Causes of climate change over the past 1000 years
146
Possible links between the solar radius variations and
179
Solar cycle length hypothesis appears to support the IPCC
342
are they plausible?
357
Making mistakes when predicting shifts in species range
371
Extract from Geomagnetic forcing of changes in climate
380
Earths response to a variable sun
401
Conclusions
407
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