Download or read book Sudden and Disruptive Climate Change written by Michael MacCracken and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While changes in emissions and atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are projected to be slow and smooth the intensity and impacts of climate change on the environment and society could be abrupt and erratic. Surprising and nonlinear responses are likely to occur as warming exceeds certain thresholds inducing relatively rapid and disruptive changes in the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets precipitation intensity and patterns coastal inundation the occurrence of wildfire the ranges of plant and animal species and more. Written by a transdisciplinary group of internationally respe.