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Contemporary climate change is illustrated by recognized and measured thermal and rainfall trends that are neither linear over time nor spatially uniform. Beyond the general logics of the physical laws governing the climate machine on a global scale (radiation balance, importance of astronomical parameters, role of greenhouse gases and volcanism, thermal gradients, air humidity capacity, etc.), regional and local nuances illustrate the importance of geographical factors and interactions between all components, such as the fundamental Arctic-wide interaction between the ocean, sea ice and the atmosphere. Whether during the cold Pleistocene sequences or during contemporary global warming, we are seeing an amplification of changes in high-latitude environments, particularly in the Arctic Basin.