Climate: Past, Present & Future

open data

Open climate science is brave climate science

Martin Wegmann and Lena Thöle December 6, 2024

Open Science brings people and data together. Source: Adobe Firefly

Why are we climate scientists? For us, there is a number of reasons: we feel a strong bond to nature, we like to solve puzzles and we want to understand the mechanisms of what we see every day. And – even if it only manifests at the end of a causal chain – we want to contribute to a just and livable world via working in climate science. Thus, due to distant and abstract state funding ...[Read More]

Palaeoclimate Data Syntheses: Opportunities and Challenges

Laia Comas-Bru (School of Archaeology, Geography & Environmental Sciences at Reading University, UK) and Nikita Kaushal (Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore). November 21, 2019

The Cango Cave (South Africa). Photo taken by Laia Comas-Bru.

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 current anthro ...[Read More]