Anthropology's engagement with climate change spans the life of the field, with most of that engagement in archaeology and environmental anthropology investigating interactions of climate change and societies past. The past several decades have seen a steadily increasing development of anthropology engaging contemporary, anthropogenic climate change, using the discipline's earlier foundations with climate change in the past but also increasingly spanning the field's subdisciplines and working in interdisciplinary contexts. Anthropological skill sets and ways of knowing are critical to understanding the diversity of ways that human cultures perceive and act as unprecedented change unfolds.