Challenge 1: Past global changes: a context to the Anthropocene

Facing current climate and environmental crises needs long-term series of Earth Dynamics and anthropogenic pressures on the Planet. Numerous geological, chemical and biological natural archives capture large-scale, multi-temporal, abrupt, and often irreversible shifts in environmental and climate sy...

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Authors: Moreno Caballud, Ana, Giralt, Santiago, Benito, Gerardo, Calvo, Eva María, Corella, Juan Pablo, Escutia, Carlota, González-Sampériz, Penélope, González-Rouco, Fidel, Grimalt, Joan O., Jiménez-Espejo, Francisco J., Jiménez Cisneros, Concha, López Sáez, José Antonio, Martínez-Ruíz, Francisca, Martrat, Belen, Pelejero, Carles, Pey, Jorge
Format: other
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2021
Country:España
Institution:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repository:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/261391
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/261391
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Anthropocene
Paleodata
Paleoclimate modelling
Paleoarchives
Past global changes
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Summary:Facing current climate and environmental crises needs long-term series of Earth Dynamics and anthropogenic pressures on the Planet. Numerous geological, chemical and biological natural archives capture large-scale, multi-temporal, abrupt, and often irreversible shifts in environmental and climate systems, providing an opportunity to better understand and therefore predict potential future impacts of the present anthropogenic warming and Humankind impact on the Planet. By providing robust, reliable, quantitative, detailed, high-resolution and long paleoclimate and paleoenvironmental data series, paleoclimatology and paleoenvironmental research place present climate variability and ecological crises in a long-term perspective to understand climate forcing mechanisms and environmental processes and responses. The success of science-based solutions to the global risks in the 21st century will strongly rely on our capacity to transfer this knowledge to politicians, managers, and society.