Myles Allen (University of Oxford) Achieving Net Zero — Solving climate change without carbon taxes and with a little help of the fossil fuel industry
Craig Bishop (University of Melbourne) This seminar introduces the “replicate Earth” ensemble interpretation framework, based on theoretically derived statistical relationships between ensembles of perfect models (replicate Earths) and observations. We... View Article
Neil Craik (University of Waterloo) While the Paris Agreement does not address the issue of climate engineering (CE) expressly, the target of limiting global average temperature rise to “well below” 2°C... View Article
Adrian Luckman (Swansea University). Larsen C Ice Shelf: Melt, ponding, ice-dynamics and the birth of a one trillion tonne iceberg In 2017, one of the largest icebergs ever recorded broke... View Article
Somini Sengupta (New York Times) At a time when the majority of the world’s population is urban, climate change presents grave new risks for the world’s cities and forces city... View Article
Jeff Good (University of Montana) Rapid environmental change threatens global biodiversity and has already led to the decline or extirpation of many taxa. Although phenotypic plasticity may enable populations to... View Article
Mapping land dryness at high resolution for fire prediction Vinodkumar, Imtiaz Dharssi and Paul Fox-Hughes Bureau of Meteorology Accurate soil moisture information is essential for the monitoring and... View Article
Hydrological extremes by their very nature are rare events and require careful use of statistical methods to ensure robust and reliable predictions. Talk summary Hydrological extremes by their very nature... View Article
Joan Llort Jordi (IMAS) Farewell Seminar: Decadal changes in Tasman Sea phytoplankton induced by atmospheric dust
Speaker: Anna von der Heydt (Utrecht University) Climate sensitivity is a key predictor of climate change. However, it is not very well constrained, either by climate models, observational, historical or... View Article