Abstract
The discovery of past rapid climate variability and the likeliness of similar abrupt future changes in climate are attracting great attention. Climate change certainly played an important role in human evolution, development, and dispersal. However, causative linkages do not occur in simple and immediate ways and research efforts are further needed to fully understand these connections. The observation that current weather patterns were also strongly active during the Last Glacial Cycle supports the idea that human forcing of climate is increasing the probability of large, unexpected climatic changes, which could exceed the natural climate variability. Understanding the linkages and the roles of various components of the climate system in the generation and propagation of rapid climate variability is a pressing question in environmental research. A summary of rapid climate change as seen during the Quaternary, with a focus on rapid climate variability, such as Dansgaard–Oeschger cycles and related environmental changes, is discussed.
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