Meeting the climate crisis with primeval knowledge

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has appointed palaeobiologist Wolfgang Kiessling to act as a main author of the next world climate report.

Knowledge of Primeval Times Helps to Counter the Climate Crisis

An interview with Wolfgang Kiessling was published by the Volkswagen Foundation, written by Bettina Wurche:

“Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kiessling from the GeoZentrum Nordbayern in Erlangen is researching the effects of earlier climate catastrophes on organisms and ecosystems. The Volkswagen Foundation supported him from 2006 to 2010 with a Lichtenberg Professorship, and since 2019 he has been funded under the Foundation’s funding initiative “World Knowledge – Structural Support for Rare Subjects“.”…

…The entire interview can be found on the HP of the Volkswagen Stiftung:  >> Interview