Climate: Past, Present & Future

Valeria Mascolo

I am a physicist and a climate scientist. I hold a PhD in Physics from École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, where I was a Maria Skłodowska-Curie ITN H2020 fellow within project EDIPI. Currently, I am a Research Scientist at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science, within the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading, United Kingdom. I work on the statistical and dynamical properties of climate extremes and tipping points in a changing climate, their prediction and their simulation.

Writing Climate: a blog at the crossroads of Science, Art and Travel

Valeria Mascolo October 24, 2025

It took me many travels, experiences, and an entire PhD on climate-related topics to realize that all these dots could be connected. How I Perceive Our Warming World is a blog at the intersection of my life passions: travel, art, and climate. It is not about travel, nor about art, nor about climate alone: it …[Read More]

About

Welcome to the blog of the Climate: Past, Present and Future (CL) Division of the European Geosciences Union (EGU). The CL division covers all aspects of the ocean-climate-atmospheric systems, encompassing multiple, overlapping and complementary disciplines. We focus on the reconstruction of past climatic changes, the state of the current climate, and model predictions of future climate scenarios.

Through this blog, we aim to share a wide range of topics in climate science, not only with fellow scientists, but also with anyone interested in learning more about the climate system and its changes. This blog is run with great enthusiasm by our Editors-in-Chief. Everybody is warmly invited to contribute to the blog and submit posts to either Shalenys Bedoya-Valestt, Ceren Moral or Bianca Biess.

Please check the Submit a Post page for more information.