Professor Bini of the University of Pisa interviewed by Nature on climate change
The teacher Monica Bini of the Department of Earth Sciences of the University of Pisa was interviewed by the journal Nature as a geoarchaeologist who studies the relationships between population and climate. Monica Bini intervened starting from a research published in the journal ‘Climate of the Past’, the result of an international workshop that took place in Pisa in 2019. Focus of the Nature article is climate change that occurred 4200 years ago and its influence on the civilization of the time.
“The drought that hit the Northern hemisphere and the Mediterranean climate 4200 years ago is the archetype of the impact of changes on complex societies – explains Monica Bini – there is evidence that this event may have a global distribution and we are witnessing for example to the ‘collapse’ of some empires in Mesopotamia “. However, the impact, duration and characteristics of this event caused are controversial and the in-depth study of the journal ‘Nature’ is precisely on this issue.
“Despite the chronological uncertainties, the data they analyze reconstruct a climate characterized by dry winters and dry summers – concludes Bini – and yet the exceptions to this trend indicate that the climate models that appear to be the Mediterranean in univocal terms are not entirely correct, the which constitutes a very important indication to define the current scenarios “.