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Javier Martín Chivelet, Professor, University Complutense of Madrid offers Jumilla a conference on "Climate Change.
An approach from the geology. "
The talk will be Thursday November 13th at eight pm, in the Ethnographic Museum of Natural Science.
This conference, organized by the Department of Culture, replacing one that had been scheduled but has not been possible.
The speaker is Doctor in Geological Sciences, Professor of Stratigraphy at the University Complutense of Madrid.
He did his doctoral thesis in the region of Jumilla, Yecla, on the Geology of the Upper Cretaceous, and has been working in the area since 1987.
Currently leads several projects aimed at high-resolution paleoclimatic reconstruction from deposits of karst caves.
Currently co-directs the Research Group 'Paleoclimatology and Global Change' of the Community of Madrid.
Professor of the Master on Climate Risk and Environmental Impact of the State Meteorological Agency
He has authored numerous scientific papers and popular books on climate change past and present global change.
He has also lectured extensively on the subject at different universities and research centers.
For the speaker "the climate has changed in the past time and space scales are very diverse and aware of these changes is a fundamental aspect for understanding the current climate and its future evolution."
Javier Martin believes that "unfortunately, the information directly (ie, that which is obtained through measuring instruments) on climate variability is very limited in time, and just help us to reconstruct the climate of little more than century ago XX. "
The professor adds that "this lack can be overcome by obtaining indirect evidence: the bygone weather information has been recorded in a huge data file, which is the paleoclimatic record."
"This file, which we know only a small part, is formed by sediments that accumulated in the seas, rivers or lakes, the fossils they contain, stalagmites that formed slowly in our caves, rings trees or ice accumulated over thousands of years in glaciers.
The reading of these data allows us to know the weather patterns in the past, the causes and consequences of the changes that took place, and gives us some clues to understand and address the current exchange rate, "said Javier Martin.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla
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