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Climate: Past, Present & Future

Dr Charles Williams

Charles Williams is a climate scientist appointed as a research fellow at the University of Bristol (UK), within the School of Geographical Sciences. He also holds a senior visiting research fellow position at the University of Reading (UK) and is a tutor at the University of Oxford. His research focusses on deep time to understand how climate has behaved in the warmer worlds experienced during the early Eocene and mid-Pliocene (ca. 50 – 3 Mio years ago).

Learning lessons from the past to inform the future

Learning lessons from the past to inform the future

  A fairly recent blog post here reiterated the compelling comparison between the current COVID-19 crisis and the ongoing climate emergency, focusing on extreme events such as hurricanes, heatwaves and severe rainfall-related flooding, all of which are likely to get worse as the climate warms (Langendijk & Osman 2020).  This comparison has been made by us Climate Scientists since the COVI ...[Read More]