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.
4 degrees C – an unavoidable catastrophe?
By Richard Betts If global greenhouse gas emissions do not begin to decline in the next few years, the chances are that global warming will exceed the 2°C “guardrail” that the EU and UN aim to stay below. HELIX is researching the impacts of higher warming levels, specifically 4°C and 6°C. What would a 4°C […]
The impact of high-end climate change scenarios over Europe, poster @climatparis2015 conference
The latest scientific evidence suggest that the increase in global mean temperature is likely to exceed the 2 degrees and target the 4 to 6 degree Celsius by the end of the 21st century. Furthermore, most of Europe is expected to warm more than the average global warming in the 21st century. The potential environmental, […]
Improving glacial behaviour for climate modelling, poster @climatparis2015 conference
Livelihoods and ecosystems in Northern South Asia are influenced by the behaviour of Himalayan glaciers as they move and melt and feed the river valleys with runoff. Sarah Shannon at the University of Exeter is improving the understanding of a glacier’s behaviour for incorporating into the modelling of HELIX. Here is Sarah’s poster at the […]
Communicating unwelcome climate messages, poster @climatparis2015 conference
People from a range of disciplinary and organisational backgrounds discussed how the challenges of ‘high-end’ climate scenarios can most effectively be communicated. Participants suggested that unless the complexity of dealing with the thousands of decisions that might be affected by high-end climate change can be simplified, and the emotional implications are handled sensitively, simply presenting audiences […]
HELIX activities at the Our Common Future Conference in Paris
A number of researchers from the HELIX Project will be participating in the Our Common Future Under Climate Change conference in Paris. We provide here a programme of the sessions they are involved in. Helix Ofucc Programme
Asher Minns’ blog forays into the unthinkable with climate research beyond 2oC
An enduring memory of mine from the wreck that was the Copenhagen climate conference in 2009 is the image of a sobbing climate campaigner being consoled by her friends at the train station. Was her grief also in part because she could not anticipate what the world would look like without a strong climate agreement? […]
