We think this a good list for a research project that is now half-way through. These are publications from authors who work within HELIX. For publications arising from HELIX funding, please see http://helixclimate.eu/publications If you cannot access any of these titles, the author will be happy to send you a copy. 2016 N. W. Arnell, S. Brown, […]
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El Niño-driven record CO2 rise led to early passing of 400ppm
The rising concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide has passed a symbolic threshold early due to the fastest annual increase on record The human-caused rise in atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide is being given an extra boost this year by the natural climate phenomena of El Niño, say climate scientists in a paper published in today’s […]
Communicating climate science @CORDEX 2016
`You are all climate communication heroes!’, with this statement Asher Minns started the Early Career Scientists side-event on science communication during the ICRC-CORDEX conference held in Stockholm, Sweden from 17th-20th of May 2016 (http://www.icrc-cordex2016.org). Asher Minns, specialist in science communication and working at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East-Anglia, and lead […]
HELIX EXPERT Workshop: Challenges and Opportunities for Bangladesh After Paris Agreement
30 April 2016, Council Bhaban, BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh Climate change is a reality now and being demonstrated across the globe through various climate events. Warming up of our earth with gradual increase of temperature as forecasted by the scientific community is no longer a myth. Climate change beyond 2°C, 4°C and 6°C is to impact […]
The long and short of 1.5oC
by Professor Richard Betts, University of Exeter and Met Office Hadley Centre The Paris Agreement aims to limit global warming to well below 2°C above pre-industrial, and to ‘pursue efforts’ to stay below 1.5°C. But last year, global temperature was more than 1°C above pre-industrial, and climate simulations indicate that the first individual year at 1.5°C could potentially occur […]
CO2 emissions stalled in 2015 – but CO2 concentrations will still rise
Prof Richard Betts, University of Exeter and Met Office Hadley Centre On 6th December, the Sunday Times ran an article headlined “Revealed – greenhouse gases to fall“ In my view this is potentially confusing, as it gives the impression that the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is going to reduce. It isn’t – at least, not for a long […]
Working Paper: The challenge of communicating unwelcome climate messages
With the probability that global temperature rise can be kept below the 2°C target continuing to diminish, citizens as well as economic and political decision makers need to engage with knowledge about the likelihood and implications of severe future impacts, and the scale of mitigation required to avoid them, the likes of which few want […]
Is CO2 fertilisation our get-out-of-jail-free card?
Response to Matt Ridley by Richard Betts In Monday’s Times newspaper, Matt Ridley wrote an article entitled: “Now here’s the good news on global warming: Activists may want to shut down debate, but evidence is growing that high CO2 levels boost crops and nourish the oceans”. He cited my tweet from last week that CO2 fertilisation […]
Poster: Flood risk assessment in Europe at 4ºC global warming
In this work, ensemble projections of river streamflow based on seven EURO-CORDEX RCP 8.5 scenarios are combined with recent advances in European flood hazard and risk mapping to assess changes in flood risk in Europe for the current century. Flood risk assessment in Europe at 4ºC global warming by Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research In this […]
Annual flood damages up to 100 billion Euro by 2080
Lorenzo Alfieri at the EC’s Joint Research Centre has published two papers on the frequency and cost of river floods in Europe. According to a JRC study published on 24 September, projections under a “high-end“ climate scenario show that river floods in Europe could directly affect more than half a million people a year by […]
