“There is still time to avoid the worst case scenarios for greenhouse global warming”
James C. Zachos
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Recognized with the 15th BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change, paleoclimatologist James Zachos explains in this interview how geological records—from ocean sediments to microfossils—allow scientists to reconstruct episodes of abrupt warming in the distant past. His insights show how these events serve as natural models for understanding the speed of current climate change and anticipating possible tipping points in the Earth system.
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Climate Change category has gone in this fifteenth edition to paleoclimatologists James C. Zachos (University of California, Santa Cruz) and Ellen Thomas (Yale University and Wesleyan University) “for their seminal contributions to the identification of a major natural event in the fossil record that provides a compelling analog for anthropogenic climate change,” said the committee in its citation.
