PIK in the Media
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Please find selected media articles featuring or written by researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) here. For articles published only in German, please see the German version of our website.
Climate Group Admits Mistakes
Ottmar Edenhofer, co-chair of IPCC Working Group III, comments on the need for improvements in the procedures for the IPCC assessment reports. In: The Wall Street Journal, online, February 10, 2010.
Copenhagen: what next?
Prof Stefan Rahmstorf, co-chair of Earth System Analysis at the Potsdam Institute, and Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) give their views on the outcome of the COP15 talks and the way forward. Source: Guardian, 01/29/2010
'Industrialized Nations Are Facing CO2 Insolvency'
In an interview with SPIEGEL ONLINE Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, PIK director, comments, on the basis of a new report by the German Advisory Council on Global Change, on how much carbon dioxide different countries can still emit in order to remain within the two degree limit. Schellnhuber, who presides over the council, calls the findings sobering because the industrialized nations have already exceeded their quotas if past emissions are taken into account. Source: SPIEGEL ONLINE, 09/01/2009.
Three Ways of Going MAD
In an essay for the "Climate Thinkers Blog" of Denmark's Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, PIK director Hans Joachim Schellnhuber talks about the striking parallels between the logic of “mutually assured destruction” (MAD) during the arms race in the cold war and the international climate change negotiations today. He explains why this logic needs to be transformed into “mutually assured decarbonisation” if the United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009 shall be successful. Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, http://en.cop15.dk/ (August 5, 2009).
"Global warming must stay below 2C or world faces ruin," scientists declare
The Times reports on the results of the St James's Palace Nobel Laureate Symposium in London (incl. video clip). More than twenty Nobel Laureates have met with some of the world’s leading climate scientists, politicians and business leaders to debate the dimensions of and solutions to the current global sustainability and climate crisis. The US secretary of energy and Nobel Laureate Steven Chu was one of the keynote speakers at the symposium. In: The Times, May 28, 2009.
Global warming must stay below 2C, scientists declare
The TIMES reports on the second Nobel Laureate Symposium in London - a Global Sustainability Symposia series that was initiated by PIK director Hans Joachim Schellnhuber in Potsdam in 2007. In: Times Online, 28 May 2009.
'Safe' climate means 'no to coal'
BBC news on a study published by PIK climate scientist Malte Meinshausen et al. in Nature. The study calculated, for the first time, how much greenhouse gas emissions can be pumped into the atmosphere between now and 2050, to have a reasonable chance of keeping warming lower than 2°C (above pre-industrial levels). In: BBC news, 29 April, 2009.
Forest Fires Mostly Overlooked by Climate Modelers
Dr. Kirsten Thonicke, geoecologist at PIK, about the scientific objective to integrate dynamic vegetation models into the climate models. In: Bloomberg News, Apr. 24, 2009.
Stern message for G20 summit
NATURE News reports on a policy paper on 'Global Green Recovery' prepared by PIK's chief economist Ottmar Edenhofer and Lord Nicholas Stern, Professor at London School of Economics on behalf of the German Foreign Office.
Climate scientists warn of "devastating" five-degree world
John Schellnhuber talks about the international climate change conference in Copenhagen. In: businessGreen.com, 03/13/09
Scientists warn of catastrophic rises in sea level
PIK-Prof Stefan Rahmstorf and other scientists warn of catastrophic rises in sea level at the climate conference in Copenhagen. In: Times online, 03/11/09
CO2 rise in atmosphere accelerates in 2008
According to the NOAA, increases in the amount of greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in the atmosphere accelerated last year. PIK climate scientist Malte Meinshausen comments on what this means for the chance to stay below 2 degrees of global warming. In: Scientific American online, 02/25/09.
"Difficulties in Climate Negotiations"
Report about PIK's Regional Modeling Comparison Project that examines the feasibility of different climate stabilization scenarios. In: Renewable Energy World Magazine, 01/06/09.
"The world's last chance"
John Schellnhuber on climate change policy to Barack Obama, The Guardian, 11/19/08
"A New Dawn"
John Schellnhuber on tipping points and carbon emissions, The Wall Street Journal, 11/08/08
´The Goal Is to Change Course not Slow Down`
Interview with Ottmar Edenhofer, SPIEGEL online, 11/03/08
"Roll back time to safeguard climate"
John Schellnhuber on global warming and carbon emissions, The Guardian, 09/15/08
IPCC elections: Edenhofer takes on chairmanship
Ottmar Edenhofer takes on chairmanship within IPCC, Nature Reports Climate Change 09/11/08
