Global Climate Change, Carbon Dioxide (CO2), and the Evolution of Life in the Palaeozoic and Early Mesozoic

直接影响我们社会的一个至关重要的问题是气候变化对我们的生命支持系统和环境的影响。但是气候变化和二氧化碳（CO2）增加对地球生物圈的影响还没有得到很好的理解，所以可以从检查过去影响其演变的事件中学到很多东西。我们的研究将提供重要的新见解，了解生命是如何进化的，并在地球历史上的重大环境剧变时期幸存下来，特别是它对全球温度和大气二氧化碳的巨大变化的反应。这些结果将为预测未来全球变暖和迅速增加的二氧化碳水平将如何影响我们的现代生物圈提供有价值的投入。

A critically important problem directly affecting our society is the effects of climate change on our life support systems and environment. But the impacts of climate change and increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) on the Earth's biosphere are not well understood, so much can be learnt from examining past events that have shaped its evolution. Our research will provide important new insights into how life evolved and survived periods of major environmental upheaval in Earth history, especially its responses to large shifts in global temperatures and atmospheric CO2. These outcomes will provide valuable input to help project how future global warming and rapidly increasing carbon dioxide levels will likely impact our modern biosphere.