Global change

Abstract

Focuses the understanding and estimation of the environmental changes to be expected in the near future. Quaternary geology allows the identification and correlation of events on a decadal to century basis, sometimes even on a yearly to seasonal basis. The short-term climatic-eustatic changes seem primarily to be driven by the redistribution of energy and water masses within given budget frames. Present warming is not linked to any significant future change in sea level; at the most some 10-20 cm in a century. The First Future Ice Age is to be expected in about 5000 years. This is of great significance for scenarios on the long-term deposition of high-level nuclear waste in the bedrock or elsewhere. -from Author