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Economists? Are cold-hearted, says the dictionary of accepted ideas. Now, Richard Tol, an environmental and energy economist at the Economic and Social Research Institute in Dublin is also a bit of an enfant terrible in his guild. So I, for one, was not surprised that his whistle stop at the EGU sent some palpable shockwaves through the large and well-filled lecture hall D here. Read more
Global sea levels could rise by up to 1.5 metres by the end of the century, Svetlana Jevrejeva of the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory in Liverpool told the EGU this morning. Read more
It’s this time of year again – the European Geosciences Union’s (EGU) General Assembly is on. Read more
The EGU goes on until Friday, but my time here is over. It has so far been another solid European geosciences meeting, although certainly not all talks were as good as you might hope. Read more
Some pop artists, including Madonna, have been accused of hypocrisy because their life styles are not exactly compatible with the climate-awareness they are going to raise at the Live Earth concert at Wembley Stadium in London on July 7. Can the same be said about scientists who fly around the world to attend the EGU? Read more