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Published: Wednesday, 03 April 2019 09:50
PAGES' parent organization Future Earth has launched a call for nominations for the Earth Commission and encourages you to nominate leading scientists to take part in this important mission to achieve global sustainability.
The deadline for nominations is 23 April 2019.
Human activities are pushing the planet out of a safe operating space for humanity. Urgent action is needed to slow, and even stop, this change.
To tackle the challenge, Future Earth is convening the Earth Commission – a group of leading scientists who will define the conditions needed to maintain a stable planet, and synthesize science needed to set targets for the life support systems of Earth: land, biodiversity, freshwater, ocean.
The Commission will inform the work of a new Science Based Targets Network developing methodologies for companies and cities to set specific science-based targets.
Read more and nominate here.
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Published: Thursday, 28 March 2019 17:24
A new article published in Nature shows that Arctic warming is associated with drying over the mid-latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere.
Authors, led by Cody Routson, compiled a large network of multi-proxy climate records extending back through the Holocene, and used the recent PAGES 2k paleotemperature dataset to bridge to the instrumental period.
The paleoclimate reconstructions agree with simulations by global climate models showing that Arctic warming is associated with reduced mid-latitude storms and rainfall.
This June, the authors will join the PAGES-endorsed CLIMATE-12k workshop, "How hot was the Holocene?" to combine the new proxy dataset with similar data from the Southern Hemisphere to develop a global perspective.
Access the paper, titled "Mid-latitude net precipitation decreased with Arctic warming during the Holocene", here.
Access the Press Release about the paper from North Arizona University here.
The PAGES PALeo constraints on SEA level rise (PALSEA) working group special issue of Quaternary Science Reviews is now complete.
Two PAGES working groups recently published workshop reports in Eos.
