The Center for Integrated Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Change: A History
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1 The interdisciplinary information needed to compose a coherent picture of climate change, its precursors and impacts could not be assembled from existing knowledge. To use a musical analogy, the instruments of the orchestra where neither in the same key nor being played to the same beat. Consequently, the climate change symphony was nothing more than chaotic noise.
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