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Category: Earth systems
Why should we act on climate change? A glaciologist’s perspective
by Professor Martin Siegert, Co-director, Grantham Institute See a headline on TV about climate change and it will undoubtedly be…
Responding to environmental change
This blog post is part of a series on Responding to Environmental Change event, organised by the Natural Environment Research Council…
Resilience to environmental hazards
This blog post by Malcom Graham, an SSCP DTP student, is part of a series on Responding to Environmental Change, an…
Managing environmental change
This blog post by Rebecca Emerton, a Scenario DTP student at University of Reading, is part of a series on…
How will Antartica’s ice-sheet contribute to 21st century sea level rise?
by Professor Martin Siegert, Co-director, Grantham Institute On 27th October I convened a meeting at the Royal Society of London…
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…
Grantham Institute welcomes results of Energy and Climate Change Committee review of IPCC WG1 report
The House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee report on the Working Group 1 contribution to the IPCC Fifth…
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’…