Abrupt changes & tipping points

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Published: Thursday, 29 July 2021 17:09

Several PAGES members, including our Executive Director Marie-France Loutre, released a paper today which shows that past abrupt climate changes provide evidence of cascading tipping points and "early warning signals"’ in the Earth system.

The international team of natural and social scientists, led by Victor Brovkin from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany, examined abrupt changes over the last 30,000 years to show how tipping points, preceded by early warning signals, can help inform our response to the current climate crisis.

"For humans, it is crucial to anticipate the future – we need to know what surprises are ahead," Prof. Brovkin said.

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Propose a new working group

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Published: Wednesday, 28 July 2021 15:27

Does your heart pound for paleoscience? Know others who feel the same?

Propose a new PAGES' working group to address a scientific question in an internationally coordinated way. The application deadline is Monday 20 September 2021.

You must contact a member of the PAGES Scientific Steering Committee to discuss your plans at least two weeks before you submit the proposal (i.e. by 6 September).​ Applications received without SSC member notification will not be looked upon favorably.

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Read the latest e-news

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Published: Wednesday, 14 July 2021 15:03

Read about the latest PAGES' news, meetings, and opportunities from around the world in this month's e-news.

Highlights include the 15 September deadline for Past Global Changes Horizons volume 2 contributions; the new PAGES-IAI International Mobility Research Fellowship Program for Latin American and Caribbean scientists, with a deadline of 30 September; submit an abstract to PAGES working group AGU sessions by 4 August; the call for new PAGES working groups and workshop support applications; extensive working group news, products, meetings, and deadline information; and other paleo announcements.

Call for Horizons contributions

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Published: Tuesday, 29 June 2021 14:21

Many of you have seen the first issue of the new magazine published by PAGES in April - Past Global Changes Horizons: Picture the past. Change the future.

Past Global Changes Horizons is a popular science magazine aimed primarily at the younger generation, budding scientists, and all those enthusiasts, both young and old, who are interested in or want to learn more about the science of the past.

We are now very happy to share with you this call for contributions to the next Horizons issue to be published in June 2022. The first drafts should be submitted by 15 September 2021.

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Climate index reconstructions

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Published: Thursday, 17 June 2021 15:52

A new paper from the PAGES Climate Reconstruction and Impacts from the Archives of Societies (CRIAS) working group shows how historical climatologists and climate historians convert qualitative descriptions of past weather from old documents into a quantitative index form.

David Nash et al.'s "Climate indices in historical climate reconstructions: a global state of the art", available in Climate of the Past, synthesises more than 350 studies from six continents to provide the first global synthesis of the use of the index approach in climate reconstruction.

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Read the latest e-news

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Published: Wednesday, 16 June 2021 16:22

Read about the latest PAGES' news, meetings, and opportunities from around the world in this month's e-news.

Highlights include the Past Global Changes Magazine updates; the new PAGES-IAI International Mobility Research Fellowship Program for Latin American and Caribbean scientists; deadlines for new PAGES working groups and workshop support; extensive working group news, products, meetings, and deadline information; PAGES ECN news; Future Earth and WCRP updates; and other paleo announcements.