Quote of the Week - "We often use the geological record to help us test or expand our understanding of climate change"

"We often use the geological record to help us test or expand our understanding of climate change, for example, determining the sensitivity of Earth’s temperature to higher CO2 levels," Pancost* said.

"But testing the risks associated with the pace of modern environmental change is proving problematic, due to a lack of similar rapid changes in the geological past.  Consequently, these risks, in this case to the marine ecosystems on which so many of us depend, remain associated with profound uncertainty," he added.  "Decreasing CO2 emissions, as recently agreed in Paris, will be necessary to avoid these risks."

*Professor Rich Pancost,  Director of Bristol University’s Cabot Institute


Environmental Change Rate Unprecedented, Study Says  by James Crugnale, The Weather Channel, Jan 7, 2016

Read original article at 2016 SkS Weekly Digest #2