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A scholar of truly peripatetic interests, Helmut Landsberg had become attracted early in his career to the mystery surrounding climatic history and change. Toward the end of his life he devoted more attention to this topic than to any other.
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Mitchell, J.M. (1991). Five Themes on Our Changing Climate. In: Baer, F., Canfield, N.L., Mitchell, J.M. (eds) Climate in Human Perspective. Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3320-3_5
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