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Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change

...Climate Change. Thomas Stocker has co-authored more than 200 publications; he holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Versailles and has received several awards for his work. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and a Foreign Member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. www.climate.unibe.ch/stocker stocker@climate.unibe.ch © The Open University...
Jean-Pierre Gattuso - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jean-Pierre Gattuso - Stories of Change

...climate change and also we see a lot of the water, almost 100% of the water, coming from the melting of ice sheets and glaciers. So the ocean is really moderating climate change but at the same time there is a cost to that - that is warming, acidification and the sea level rise. RH: And what’s going to be the result of that do we know? JPG: Well, we have just released a...
Richard Tol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Richard Tol - Stories of Change

...Climate Change, Institute for Environmental Studies and Department of Spatial Economics, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and a Research Fellow of the Tinbergen Institute and CESifo. Formerly, he was a Research Professor at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, the Michael Otto Professor of Sustainability and Global Change at Hamburg...
App zeros in on loss of equatorial glaciers
Nature & Environment

App zeros in on loss of equatorial glaciers

...climate change will have raised the temperature enough to melt every one of the glaciers. So concerned is the explorer and author Tim Jarvis, UK-born but now living in Australia, that he is trying to make sure that, before that happens, all the mountains are climbed by people who will publicise their plight. Jarvis, with a first degree in geomorphology and a master’s in...
Protestivals - What are they?
History & The Arts

Protestivals - What are they?

...but scholars say that the roots of this particular form of protest can be found in the alternative globalisation movements that started in the 1980s. ...If you’re unfamiliar with the concept and oh-so curious, Dr Maria Nita explains the phenomenon, from the recent climate change Protest Festivals to the carnival occasions that took place in Classical Greece. Transcript...
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Science, Maths & Technology

Could we control our climate?

...climate change – to enormous controversies over their risks and the way they could be used. More than that, climate engineering serves as a useful tool to move beyond the usual, often frustrating conversations around what to do about the climate crisis. By examining exactly what we want for our planet's climate, and what we would be willing to sacrifice to get ......
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World must avert flood of climate refugees - Climate News Network
Nature & Environment

World must avert flood of climate refugees - Climate News Network

...climate change effectively. Lord Ashdown, who was leader of Britain’s Liberal Democrats for 11 years, describes the present flight of refugees from Syria and other conflict areas as a “rehearsal” for the vast humanitarian disaster he believes will soon unfold. In a recent BBC interview on the Syrian refugee crisis, he said: “This is the beginnings of the future....
Speed of Arctic changes defies scientists
Nature & Environment

Speed of Arctic changes defies scientists

...climate is changing so quickly that science can barely keep track of what is happening and predict the global consequences, the UN says...[An iceberg caught in pack ice off Alaska] In an unusually stark warning a leading international scientific body says the Arctic climate is changing so fast that researchers are struggling to keep up. The changes happening there, it...