An international team including a Texas A&M researcher concluded that to predict future climate trends, more attention is needed regarding historical records from millions of years ago.
Yige Zhang, assistant professor in the Department of Oceanography, and fellow researchers have had their work published in the current issue of Science magazine.
The team found that past climate information – called paleoclimate – is not included in current studies and should be used to ensure accurate future climate predictions.
“We urge the climate model developer community to pay attention to the past and actively involve it in predicting the future,” said lead researcher Jessica Tierney of the University of Arizona. “If your model can simulate past climates accurately, it will likely do a much better job of getting future scenarios right.”
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