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...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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....

...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...