Warm climates of the past—a lesson for the future? This is one article from the Discussion Meeting Issue ‘Warm climates of the past—a lesson for the future?’ compiled and edited by Daniel J. Lunt, Harry Elderfield, Richard Pancost and Andy Ridgwell
This Discussion Meeting Issue of the Philosophical Transactions A had its genesis in a Discussion Meeting of the Royal Society which took place on 10–11 October 2011. The Discussion Meeting, entitled ‘Warm climates of the past: a lesson for the future?’, brought together 16 eminent international spe...
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ftucambridgeesc:oai:eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk:2901 2023-05-15T16:41:35+02:00 Warm climates of the past—a lesson for the future? This is one article from the Discussion Meeting Issue ‘Warm climates of the past—a lesson for the future?’ compiled and edited by Daniel J. Lunt, Harry Elderfield, Richard Pancost and Andy Ridgwell Lunt, D. J. Elderfield, H. Pancost, R. Ridgwell, A. Foster, G. L. Haywood, A. Kiehl, J. Sagoo, N. Shields, C. Stone, E. J. Valdes, P. 2013-10 text image http://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/2901/ http://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/2901/1/warm%20climates.pdf http://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/2901/2/F1.large.jpg http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/371/2001/20130146 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2013.0146 en eng Royal Society http://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/2901/1/warm%20climates.pdf http://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/2901/2/F1.large.jpg Lunt, D. J. and Elderfield, H. and Pancost, R. and Ridgwell, A. and Foster, G. L. and Haywood, A. and Kiehl, J. and Sagoo, N. and Shields, C. and Stone, E. J. and Valdes, P. (2013) Warm climates of the past—a lesson for the future? This is one article from the Discussion Meeting Issue ‘Warm climates of the past—a lesson for the future?’ compiled and edited by Daniel J. Lunt, Harry Elderfield, Richard Pancost and Andy Ridgwell. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 371 (2001). p. 20130146. ISSN 1364-503X, 1471-2962 DOI https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2013.0146 <https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2013.0146> cc_by CC-BY 01 - Climate Change and Earth-Ocean Atmosphere Systems Article PeerReviewed 2013 ftucambridgeesc https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2013.0146 2020-08-27T18:09:27Z This Discussion Meeting Issue of the Philosophical Transactions A had its genesis in a Discussion Meeting of the Royal Society which took place on 10–11 October 2011. The Discussion Meeting, entitled ‘Warm climates of the past: a lesson for the future?’, brought together 16 eminent international speakers from the field of palaeoclimate, and was attended by over 280 scientists and members of the public. Many of the speakers have contributed to the papers compiled in this Discussion Meeting Issue. The papers summarize the talks at the meeting, and present further or related work. This Discussion Meeting Issue asks to what extent information gleaned from the study of past climates can aid our understanding of future climate change. Climate change is currently an issue at the forefront of environmental science, and also has important sociological and political implications. Most future predictions are carried out by complex numerical models; however, these models cannot be rigorously tested for scenarios outside of the modern, without making use of past climate data. Furthermore, past climate data can inform our understanding of how the Earth system operates, and can provide important contextual information related to environmental change. All past time periods can be useful in this context; here, we focus on past climates that were warmer than the modern climate, as these are likely to be the most similar to the future. This introductory paper is not meant as a comprehensive overview of all work in this field. Instead, it gives an introduction to the important issues therein, using the papers in this Discussion Meeting Issue, and other works from all the Discussion Meeting speakers, as exemplars of the various ways in which past climates can inform projections of future climate. Furthermore, we present new work that uses a palaeo constraint to quantitatively inform projections of future equilibrium ice sheet change. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ice Sheet University of Cambridge, Department of Earth Sciences: ESC Publications Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 371 2001 20130146 |
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This Discussion Meeting Issue of the Philosophical Transactions A had its genesis in a Discussion Meeting of the Royal Society which took place on 10–11 October 2011. The Discussion Meeting, entitled ‘Warm climates of the past: a lesson for the future?’, brought together 16 eminent international speakers from the field of palaeoclimate, and was attended by over 280 scientists and members of the public. Many of the speakers have contributed to the papers compiled in this Discussion Meeting Issue. The papers summarize the talks at the meeting, and present further or related work. This Discussion Meeting Issue asks to what extent information gleaned from the study of past climates can aid our understanding of future climate change. Climate change is currently an issue at the forefront of environmental science, and also has important sociological and political implications. Most future predictions are carried out by complex numerical models; however, these models cannot be rigorously tested for scenarios outside of the modern, without making use of past climate data. Furthermore, past climate data can inform our understanding of how the Earth system operates, and can provide important contextual information related to environmental change. All past time periods can be useful in this context; here, we focus on past climates that were warmer than the modern climate, as these are likely to be the most similar to the future. This introductory paper is not meant as a comprehensive overview of all work in this field. Instead, it gives an introduction to the important issues therein, using the papers in this Discussion Meeting Issue, and other works from all the Discussion Meeting speakers, as exemplars of the various ways in which past climates can inform projections of future climate. Furthermore, we present new work that uses a palaeo constraint to quantitatively inform projections of future equilibrium ice sheet change. |
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