Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (España)
Abstract
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.Peer reviewe
