General Information

General Information

 This workshop aims at exploring climate reconstructions and processes throughout the pre-Cenozoic time. In recent years, the number of available data has grown exponentially, including paleontological, sedimentological, isotopic, and geochemical data.

Two questions arise:

(1) is there a unified picture of the pre-Cenozoic climates and environmental evolution emerging from this large amount of data?

(2) how can we promote dialogue between numerical models, which deliver large amounts of climatic and environmental parameters, and geological observations?

The workshop offers data- and model-workers an opportunity to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the geological proxies and numerical models, to share their vision about the reconstruction of pre-Cenozoic climates, and to debate about emerging scientific questions such as:

- 50 years of reconstruction of the paleoclimate: what has been learned? What is true, what is wrong?

- What can be learned from the pre-Cenozoic world for the future? (Is there something to learn?)

- By how much doe s differ the past from the modern Earth system, in terms of stability, sensitivity…?

- How to integrate non-quantitative data in climate reconstruction?

- Do we have access to the absolute temperatures of the past world?

- Are biodiversity trends reliable climatic markers?