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 […]
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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 […]
See Storify for our annual Assembly
Our Assembly this year includes a public discussion exploring potential connections between environmental migrants and climate change, you can see us at Storify. We are this year at the University of Liege, hosted by@Gemenne.
