J Farmer's Almanac

Earth’s climate is warming at its fastest rate in millions of years. Future generations face climate analogs with unfamiliar names like Eocene, Miocene, and Pliocene.

To avert a climate catastrophe, we urgently need to know more about where we’re headed and how we can avoid the worst impacts.

These problems motivated the launch of J Farmer’s Almanac back in 2015. What started as a blog on climate science topics has evolved into the home for an entire lab group researching how and why climate changes.

The PaleoLab at UMass Boston’s School for the Environment investigates how Earth’s carbon and nitrogen cycles responded to past climate change. We use this information to understand and predict our climate future.