Palaeontology’s Contribution To Understanding Our Climate Crisis

The current climate change and habitat destruction is leading to what many call the 6th Mass extinction. Many paleo researchers, exploring past climate and biotic responses to these changes, link their work directly to the current climate crisis driven by the clear need to reverse the dangerous and widespread disruption in nature. Drawing on her 13 years' experience in the IPCC Working Group II, Professor Schmidt will focus on the urgent questions which need addressing, and the potential the paleo records have in this context to generate solutions.