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There are few global challenges as widespread, as complex, as significant to our future, and politically as controversial as that of global warming. The goal of this chapter is, in essence, to motivate this textbook; to convince you, the reader, that very nearly all of the topics in this text need to be understood in order to grasp the subtleties of a subject such as global warming.
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Meaning that there is a self-similar behaviour on a wide range of length scales, such as cracks in ice on all scales from nanometre to kilometres.
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Or bell curve or normal distribution; all refer to the same thing.
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Fieguth, P. (2017). Global Warming and Climate Change. In: An Introduction to Complex Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44606-6_2
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