This report examines the repeated claim that the climate of the 20th century was unusual
compared with those of the last 1,000 years. The claim takes several forms–eg, that the 20th …

As a defining crisis of the Anthropocene, climate change has far-reaching impacts on both
human and Earth systems. The chapter offers a comprehensive examination of the current …

The Earth has been around for a long time. Earth's climate history is called its paleoclimate,
where “paleo” means old or ancient. In this article, we explain how studying paleoclimate …

PARIS, Feb. 2—In a grim and powerful assessment of the future of the planet, the leading
international network of climate scientists has concluded for the first time that global warming …

The first thing that comes to mind when I hear the word “badlands” is “good fossils”! The
inhospitable bare rock pinnacles of badlands found around the world are indeed a bad …

Over a hundred years ago, Svante Arrhenius (1896), building on earlier work of the French
physicist Joseph Fourier, Tyndall (1861), Langley (1884), and others, was the first to model …

Sir David chose his words carefully. There is a discussion about whether global warming is
due to anthropogenic (man-made) effects. But it is not–or is only seldom–taking place …

Together with the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, the Deutsches
Museum hosted a major special exhibition on the Anthropocene from December 2014 …

During the past decades, notions of Earth dynamics and climate change have changed
drastically, as anthropogenic CO 2-emissions are linked to measurable Earth system …

The book Climate and Society in Europe: The Last Thousand Years, through an appropriate
interdisciplinary approach, identifies and analyses the nexus between past and present …