Global carbon emissions with consequent global warming linked to fossil fuel combustion has been resulting in serious environmental stress and biological crises since the Industrial Revolution. The Earth’s deep past records manifest intensified climatic and environmental perturbations in response to a growing body of extreme but short-lived hyperthermal events associated with greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions. The paleoclimate and biogeochemical records during these events are comparable—in many cases—with modern GHG effects in terms of both magnitudes and rates.
How to understand climatic perturbations, palaeoecological responses, and biogeochemical dynamics across these ancient hyperthermal events is the key to curbing profound consequences of today’s carbon emissions. Through examining these episodes via interdisciplinary integration of modern techniques, these events can also serve as potential analogues to facilitate clean energy transition with the development of low-carbon approaches.
This Research Topic aims to present and disseminate recent advances in biogeochemical records from both marine and terrestrial archives during hyperthermal events and low-carbon and clean energy methodologies to achieve early net zero emissions. Studies that address co-evolution between past climate and ecosystem during critical transitions (e.g., extreme climate change and mass extinction interval) as well as applications of novel geochemical and biological proxies, paleoclimate modeling, high-resolution stratigraphic records are particularly welcomed.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:
• Dynamics of Earth’s past climate and carbon cycles
• Energy exploration/transition that integrates sedimentological and geochemical datasets
• Energy shortages emerging from fossil fuel and oil-to-gas transition
• Numerical simulation from regions across geologic times
Global carbon emissions with consequent global warming linked to fossil fuel combustion has been resulting in serious environmental stress and biological crises since the Industrial Revolution. The Earth’s deep past records manifest intensified climatic and environmental perturbations in response to a growing body of extreme but short-lived hyperthermal events associated with greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions. The paleoclimate and biogeochemical records during these events are comparable—in many cases—with modern GHG effects in terms of both magnitudes and rates.
How to understand climatic perturbations, palaeoecological responses, and biogeochemical dynamics across these ancient hyperthermal events is the key to curbing profound consequences of today’s carbon emissions. Through examining these episodes via interdisciplinary integration of modern techniques, these events can also serve as potential analogues to facilitate clean energy transition with the development of low-carbon approaches.
This Research Topic aims to present and disseminate recent advances in biogeochemical records from both marine and terrestrial archives during hyperthermal events and low-carbon and clean energy methodologies to achieve early net zero emissions. Studies that address co-evolution between past climate and ecosystem during critical transitions (e.g., extreme climate change and mass extinction interval) as well as applications of novel geochemical and biological proxies, paleoclimate modeling, high-resolution stratigraphic records are particularly welcomed.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:
• Dynamics of Earth’s past climate and carbon cycles
• Energy exploration/transition that integrates sedimentological and geochemical datasets
• Energy shortages emerging from fossil fuel and oil-to-gas transition
• Numerical simulation from regions across geologic times