Detection of and awareness on increasing climate variability and the elevated risk to forestry

Abstract

The conclusion in the introduction to PART III of this book, that the potential for world-wide economic and social disruption is possibly enormous (NOAA 2007) is certainly a disconcerting prediction for agriculture and forestry. It undermines what farmers and foresters perceive as the natural state of the world. Not only will agriculture become less predictable but markets will also become less predictable. Historical examples of natural climate variability demonstrate that the consequences of climate variability can be both beneficial or dire (see Box III.4.12). © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.