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That collaboration has now been published by springer. Divided into eleven sections, this comprehensive book opens with an introduction to basic scientific principles including the scientific method, the laws of thermodynamics. Ipcc, summary for policymakers pdf, detection and attribution of climate change, it is extremely likely that human influence. There is currently a strong scientific consensus that the earth is warming and that this warming is mainly caused by human activities. Climate change occurs when changes in earths climate system result in new weather patterns that remain in place for an extended period of time. Quantifying the influence of climate on human conflict.
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