Dr Ajay Gambhir, Senior Research Fellow at the Grantham Institute and contributor to the Committee on Climate Change’s Net Zero…
Category: Media
Is climate change above ‘post-truth’?
In this opinion piece, Luke Bevan discusses the modern ethical challenges of communicating climate change science to the general public.
Taking the planet’s temperature: How are global temperatures calculated?
Grantham intern Peter Davies (Department of Physics) delves into global temperature records. Statements such as “2014 earth’s warmest year on…
With climate models, simpler isn’t necessarily better
Grantham Institute Co-Director Professor Joanna Haigh discusses a recent paper which argues that existing climate models ‘run hot’ and overstate the extent of manmade…
The costs of decarbonising the UK
By Dr Flora Whitmarsh, Grantham Institute The costs associated with reducing emissions in the UK have been discussed recently in the press….
Ocean heat uptake – checking the facts
By Dr Flora Whitmarsh, Grantham Institute The recent slowdown in global temperature rise has led to suggestions that global warming…
Ocean warming in the media
A recent paper on ocean warming has been reported on in a number of newspaper articles, most recently by Christopher…
Fact checking a recent Telegraph article by Christopher Booker
by Dr Flora Whitmarsh, Grantham Institute In an article for the Telegraph, Christopher Booker gave his views on Professor Sir Brian Hoskins’…