29 Rapid Climate Variability: Description and Mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
Masa Kageyama, Didier M. Roche, Nathalie Combourieu Nebout,
and Jorge Alvarez-Solas
30 An Introduction to the Holocene and Anthropic Disturbance . . . . . . . . . . . . 423
Pascale Braconnot and Pascal Yiou
31 From the Climates of the Past to the Climates of the Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443
Sylvie Charbit, Nathaelle Bouttes, Aurélien Quiquet, Laurent Bopp,
Gilles Ramstein, Jean-Louis Dufresne, and Julien Cattiaux
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