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Real - they happened
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Large - 1/3 to 1/2 of glacial/interglacial changes
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Global (as far as we can tell)
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Rapid - in as little as 10 years (meaning big changes
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every year)
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Repeated - not unusual with the long view
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In warm times, not just ice ages
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No satisfactory theory for them
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Our models (the ones we rely on to predict the future)
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do not generate them
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Societies have often not survived them
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