EGU: Shifting seasons?
Changes in the annual life cycles of plants and animals are a good footprint of climate change in middle latitudes. But it is a footprint that is less easy to detecet than melting sea ice or glacier retreat. Read more
Changes in the annual life cycles of plants and animals are a good footprint of climate change in middle latitudes. But it is a footprint that is less easy to detecet than melting sea ice or glacier retreat. Read more
It’s a warm and sunny spring day today in Vienna can you guess then whether the coming summer will be colder or warmer than usual? Well, if you think that you hardly have more – though certainly not less – than a 50% chance of getting it right you’re, uhm, right. But guess what: Supercomputer-powered seasonal climate forecasts don’t do much better. Read more
A record number of 9,000 or so scientist has come to the always charming Austrian capital of Vienna for this year’s general assembly of the European Geosciences Union, the biggest such meeting this side of the Atlantic. Read more
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
Researchers pin down when we’ll know the effects of climate on water flow. Read more
I am a bit at loss now, standing here between the tall concrete buldings that surround the Vienna Conference Center in the Kaisermühlen district of the Austrian capital. Kaisermühlen-Blues, it occurrs to me, was the name of a succesful 1990s TV series that ran on Austrian television. Read more