Introduction : future climate. Seeing further : the futurology of climate
[pt.] I. The anthropocene. People, policy and politics in future climates
Urban climates and global climate change
Human effects on climate through land-use-induced land-cover change
[pt.] II. Time and tide. Fast and slow feedbacks in future climates
Variability and change in the ocean
Climatic variability on decadal to century timescales
The future of the world's glaciers
[pt.] III. Looking forward. Climate and weather extremes : observations, modelling, and projections
Interaction between future climate and terrestrial carbon and nitrogen
Atmospheric composition change : climate-chemistry interactions
Climate-chemistry interaction : future tropospheric ozone and aerosols
[pt.] IV. Learning lessons. Records from the past, lessons for the future : what the palaeorecord implies about mechanisms of global change
Modeling the past and future interglacials in response to astronomical and greenhouse gas forcing
Catastrophe : extraterrestrial impacts, massive volcanism, and the biosphere
[pt.] V. Understanding the unknowns. Future climate surprises
Future climate : one vital component of trans-disciplinary earth system science.
