La Tierra se organiza como un sistema complejo, caracterizado por un elevado dinamismo, plagado de grandes cambios climáticos y transformaciones. Sin embargo, las características intrínsecas al Sistema Tierra no invalidan la importancia del proceso actual de cambio climático, ni cuestionan su origen humano. En este artículo en Ciencia Crítica revisamos la historia de la Tierra y su autoorganización como sistema, gracias entre otros a las investigaciones galardonadas con el Premio Nobel de Física de 2021 a Syukuro Manabe y Klaus Hasselmann, así como la cobarde y negligente inacción de los líderes mundiales frente a las amenazas a nuestro modo de vida que impone el cambio climático.
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Joaquín Hortal
I am a biogeographer with broad interests in macroecology, community ecology, island biogeography, insect ecology, evolution, and biodiversity research. My main research aim is to determine why biodiversity – and in particular community structure – is geographically distributed the way it is, and to identify the processes that domain the spatial and temporal dynamics of ecological assemblages. I work as Scientific Researcher at the Department of Biogeography and Global Change of the Natural History Museum in Madrid (MNCN), a research institute of the Spanish Scientific Council (CSIC). I am also External Professor at the Departamento de Ecologia of the Federal University of Goiás (UFG) in Brazil, and Associate Researcher of the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (cE3c) of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon in Portugal.
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I am a biogeographer and community ecologist, working as scientific researcher at the Department of Biogeography and Global Change of the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC).
I am also scientific collaborator at the Postgraduate Course on Ecology and Evolution of the Universidade Federal de Goiás and the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (cE3c) of the Universidade de Lisboa, and member of eBryo – Research Group on Experimental Bryology.