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  • 1 Sep 2022
    Bruce Clarke, Sébastien Dutreuil

    The Scientific Collaboration that Brought Gaia to the World

    With a two-page letter to the editor of the scientific journal Atmospheric Environment published in 1972, the English scientist and inventor James Lovelock (1919-2022) introduced Gaia into the professional literature.

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  • 6 May 2022
    Adeline Johns-Putra

    What can books do in a time of climate crisis?

    As a scholar of the literature of climate change, I am often asked, “Can books save the planet?”. Well, not literally, no. But I do believe that fictional narratives in which characters respond to climate crises act as thought experiments—or, indeed, as ‘feeling experiments’—for the reader’s potential response. I believe that fictional, poetic, or dramatic […]

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  • 26 Oct 2021
    Joanna Depledge

    Keeping expectations realistic for COP26 in Glasgow

    There are great expectations by governments, businesses, and civil society for the forthcoming Glasgow Climate Conference, or COP 26, as it’s known in the jargon. US Secretary of State John Kerry has labelled it “the last best hope for the world”, words echoed by UK COP President Designate, Alok Sharma. Similar hyperbole is peppered liberally […]

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  • 8 Oct 2021
    R. Saravanan

    The Physics of Climate Prediction

    Syukuro Manabe explains how mountains affect the Earth’s climate (1972 photo, courtesy of NOAA/GFDL)

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  • 12 Feb 2021
    Fariborz Zelli, Jakob Skovgaard, Karin Bäckstrand, Naghmeh Nasiritousi, Oscar Widerberg

    Governing the Climate-Energy Nexus

    Combating climate change and transitioning to fossil-free energy systems are two central planetary challenges humanity faces today Combating climate change and transitioning to fossil-free energy systems are two central planetary challenges humanity faces today. The two challenges strongly overlap, both in their substance and in the political choices we have to address them. As a […]

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  • 20 Jun 2020
    Manfred Mudelsee

    The Big Question (Statistical Analysis of Climate Extremes: The Blog about the Book. Part 4)

    “Climate extremes cost human lives. They do harm to the economy. Examples are the Elbe flood in 2002, the European heatwave in 2003 or hurricane Katrina in 2005. The big question is how global climate change influences climate extremes. This plagues decision-makers as well as climate researchers.” This is how the preface starts. How to […]

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  • 25 May 2020
    Manfred Mudelsee

    Statistical Analysis of Climate Extremes: The Blog about the Book. Part 2: The Cover

    What picture to show on the cover of a book about climate extremes? Such events have a big potential to cost human lives and harm the economy. Illustrate this danger? A photo of a starving child in a desert? The chaos in a city hit by a hurricane? Certainly not. Photo selection is an intimate […]

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  • 18 May 2020
    Manfred Mudelsee

    Statistical Analysis of Climate Extremes: The Blog about the Book. Part 1: Corona

    Writing a blog article about a book on climate extremes in these weeks or months or years of SARS-CoV-2, the Corona virus? At the beginning of this job, I feel embarrassed since I am doing fine as regards health and work, while other humans are suffering. I am a self-employed climate researcher and have the […]

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