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-- Questions and Answers (Q&A) --

Attention regarding abrupt climate change is currently rising, partly because of a particularly alarmist Pentagon report, and by the hype surrounding the new movie "The day after tomorrow" (the first "climate disaster movie" of the genre). The point of these pages is to examine the scientific basis behind such abrupt changes, and evaluate the likelihood of it happening in the future. Here are a few frequently-asked questions to begin your odyssey:


Contributors: Robert Anderson, Peter deMenocal, Julien Emile-Geay, Yochanan Kushnir, Richard Seager and Martin Visbeck.

Page content supplied by Julien Emile-Geay. Please email Julien for questions/comments regarding this Q&A page.

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