caa a22 4500 445814217 CHVBK 20180317145220.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10712-011-9129-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10712-011-9129-z Grassl Hartmut Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany aut Climate Change Challenges [Elektronische Daten] [Hartmut Grassl] Anthropogenic climate change has emerged as one of the major challenges for mankind in the centuries to come. The strongly modified composition of the atmosphere, due to emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosol particles, leads to an enhanced greenhouse effect and also intensified backscattering of solar radiation by aerosol particles. The resulting global mean warming will have a major impact on the entire cryosphere, with global consequences via mean sea level rise and redistributed precipitation. This introductory presentation will summarize the emergence of the topic, its already observed consequences for the cryosphere, and it will also discuss issues in climate policy making when dealing with the climate change challenge. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011 Climate change nationallicence Cryosphere nationallicence Sea level nationallicence Surveys in Geophysics Springer Netherlands 32/4-5(2011-09-01), 319-328 0169-3298 32:4-5<319 2011 32 10712 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-011-9129-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-011-9129-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Grassl Hartmut Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Surveys in Geophysics Springer Netherlands 32/4-5(2011-09-01), 319-328 0169-3298 32:4-5<319 2011 32 10712 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer