My guest this week is Valérie Trouet, a palaeoclimatologist, Professor of Dendrochronology at the University of Arizona and Scientific Director of the Belgian Climate Centre. In this episode, she discusses how:
- Studying tree rings can give insights into climate change over the past 2,000 years
- There is evidence that climate change was a contributing factor to the fall of Rome
- Science needs the support of enabling government policy to turn insight into action
- Communicating scientific findings needs to generate consensus rather than division
- Dendrochronology allows us to compare extreme climate events, such as wildfires, over time
Key links
Valérie Trouet (LinkedIn)
Laboratory for Tree-Ring Research (website)
Tree Braille (poem)
Thriving (book)
Wayne Visser (website)
Wayne Visser (LinkedIn)