By Jane Strachan Last Friday saw the release of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Managing the Risk of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate … Continue reading “An insurance industry perspective on the latest IPCC report”
Climate scientists from around the world have spent the last few years preparing for, and now running and analysing the results for the fifth global climate model intercomparison project (CMIP5). … Continue reading “climate hosepipes and archive swimming pools”
By Helen Greatrex. “I don’t know the reasons, but I know the climate is changing,” Medhin Reda, a 45-year-old farmer eking a living for her family from two rain-fed fields … Continue reading “Tell me a story… How do climate perceptions match up to observations?”
During June 2011 I was involved in some long-awaited fieldwork in Africa. The purpose of the fieldwork was to obtain measurements of the sparsely observed Sahara Desert (see image showing … Continue reading “A day in the life of a mission scientist”