%0 book part %@ %A Quante, M. %D 2010 %J Relict Species - Phylogeography and Conservation Biology %P 9-56 %R doi:10.1007/978-3-540-92160-8_2 %T The Changing Climate: Past, Present and Future %U https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92160-8_2 %X Overall it can be said that a certain amount of future climate change is unavoidable regardless which route of emission reductions mankind will follow and that emissions from the twenty-first century will noticeably affect climate over the entire millennium.