Podium Discussion (German): Grenzen der Wissenschaftskommunikation im Klimawandel
Location: Plenarsaal at the ZiF (Center for Interdisciplinary Research), Bielefeld, Germany
Date: 11 May 2022, 19:00
In the context of the cooperation group VOLCANOES, CLIMATE AND HISTORY
Plants in the UK flower a month earlier under recent warming
Using a citizen science database with records going back to the mid-18th century, a research team led by the University of Cambridge has found that the effects of climate change are causing plants in the UK to flower one month earlier under recent global warming. This could have profound consequences for wildlife, agriculture and gardeners.
“Die Kurvendiskussion”. Interview in Welt am Sonntag (in German)
Interview (in German) published in Welt am Sonntag
The influence of decision-making in tree ring-based climate reconstructions
Tree-ring chronologies underpin the majority of annually-resolved reconstructions of Common Era climate. However, they are derived using different datasets and techniques, the ramifications of which have hitherto been little explored.
Recent European drought extremes beyond Common Era background variability
European oak trees reconstruct summer climate over 2,110 years. Drought conditions since 2015 suddenly intensified, beyond anything in the past two thousand years.