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The earth’s climate is changing because of natural and anthropogenic contributions to the environment’s composition and structure. A balance has been maintained in our environment by interactions continuously operating since the dawn of life, between the biosphere, the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, the cryosphere and the geosphere. These five spheres are continuously interacting to maintain a quasi-ecological equilibrium which includes adaptation by humans and ecosystems to new states of environmental equilibrium. In the past few decades, which form the so-called anthropocene period, it has been recognised that humans are contributing to climate change through a number of activities, the most notable of which are anthropogenic global emissions of greenhouse gases.
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Zerefos, C. (2011). Climate Change: An Issue of International Concern. In: Botsiou, K., Klapsis, A. (eds) The Konstantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy Yearbook 2011. The Constantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy Yearbook Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18415-4_15
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