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Climate is an important factor on all human activities. We are all affected by the atmosphere and need information about it and we react to the atmosphere through our ability. Climatology is
the science that seeks to elescribe the nature of climate, why it eliffers from place to place ane! how It is related to other elements of the natural environment and human activities.
Outside the ancient Greeks and Roman writers, in the Islamic world, Ibn Khaldun contributed to a discaussion of the climate human relationship only the middle zone provided climates which people were regarded as able to excel in wisdom and adapt to climate conditions.
Applied climatology seeks relationships between climate and other phenomena. There IS a general agreement that the second world war gave a major impetus to the development of applied climatology.
The potential vulnerability of the modern world to climate vanahilily. growing energy
problems and an awarness of environmental consequences of the continued consumption of fOSSil fuels have led 10 a coming of age for applied climatology. CiImme impaci assessment as an
important part of the emergence and development of applied climatoloh'y has been considered in
this paper.