Climate Change Action Team
Westoby & McNamara explain in Nature Geoscience (2019) how negative emotions around climate change may inhibit people’s capacity to affect change. New research on tourists’ perceptions of coral bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef...
In this paper, published in Nature Geoscience (2019), Slater and co-authors describe how rapid volcanogenic global warming occurred 183 million years ago triggered a drop in the land plant richness and biodiversity. During this...
Earth is approaching environmental thresholds that, if crossed, will create serious disruptions to ecosystems, economies, and society. To avoid the devastating effects of climate change and biodiversity loss, humanity must protect and restore native...
Dirk Olonscheck and co-authors show how the 75% of Arctic sea-ice variability is controlled by atmospheric temperature. This evidence proves tha the anthropogenic global warming is the primary control on this ice sheet decline.
This arctic researcher describes how climate data is being deleted by the Trump administration in a Guardian article. Missing project reports, missing data, defunct links…
Why did the Antarctic Ice Sheet begin to grow 34 million years ago, and what does that have to do with us? In this paper published in Science in 2016, Galeotti et al. studied...
Low “Yvonne” continues to bring cold air and rain. It is slowly moving eastwards, but still causing cold weather and storms over parts of southern Germany. High “Volker” is waiting over the Atlantic.
Peter Wadhams is one of the world’s leading experts on sea ice. He has studied sea ice since the 1970s and has undertaken more than 50 expeditions to both polar regions. This allows him...