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