In the current climate that definition may be given a wide interpretation.
By definition, climate defies observation by any one individual.
Climate is, by definition, a measure of decades and centuries, not months or years.
But with climate change, the definition of normal has itself been shifting.
In his definition, climate change becomes dangerous when an event - such as extreme flooding or heatwaves - that only happened once every 100 years becomes one that happens every 10 years.
In contrast, since climate change by definition affects only planet Earth, there seems little scope for impacts on astronomical hazards.
The MOVE framework, like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) definition, considers vulnerability to be a function of exposure, susceptibility, and adaptive capacity (framed as lack of resilience or societal response mechanisms).
There is a large number of criteria used for defining Miombo degradation [6] of which the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) definition is related to loss of carbon stock during a certain time period [7].
The second half of the 20th century was very likely (a probability >90% according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) definition) to be caused by man in the comparison with previous natural changes over the past 500 years [1].
The IPCC's (2014, p. 5) definition of climate change is "Climate change refers to a change in the state of the climate that can be identified (e.g., by using statistical tests) by changes in the mean and/or the variability of its properties, and that persists for an extended period, typically decades or longer.
Although there are varying definitions for the mediterranean climate, we chose one definition that can be readily mapped with available climate data and has minimal over prediction into areas that are not part of the mediterranean biome (see supporting information Text S1 for further discussion and sensitivity analysis).
