Climate: Past, Present & Future

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The rabbit and the tortoise – what does a glacial cycle need to be a glacial cycle?

Sergio Pérez-Montero June 2, 2025

The climate is not what it used to be and it will never be the same again. This is what the models say. Where does this knowledge come from? In short, we learn it from the clues that nature left on the planet since its formation. And it is precisely with these observations where our …[Read More]

Palaeoclimate Data Syntheses: Opportunities and Challenges

Laia Comas-Bru and Nikita Kaushal November 21, 2019

Reconstructing past climate states from geological records is crucial for understanding the causal mechanisms that originated them. These can occur at time-scales which are much longer than the periods for which humans have been measuring climate variables such as temperature in meteorological stations. Such climate reconstructions provide a long-term context to the magnitude of the …[Read More]

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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.

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