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1.5 degrees looks to be inevitable in the next few years – weren’t we supposed to stay below it?

Posted by Prof Dan Osborn, Editor-in-Chief, UCL Open: Environment on 2024-02-06

Posted on June 15, 2023How does the media read climate science and present it to the public and consequently to decision-makers? In this post, UCL Open Environment Editor-in-Chief, Prof Dan Osborn highlights the way scientific climate research is disseminated for public consumption through the media. Why 1.5°C mattersThe BBC recently issued a climate-related story and [...]

Expected or not? The UK’s exceptional record-breaking weather

Posted by Prof Dan Osborn, Editor-in-Chief, UCL Open Environment on 2024-02-06

Posted on July 25, 2022 by Professor Dan Osborn, Chair of Human Ecology, Earth Sciences, at UCL (University College London, UK) and Editor-in-Chief of the UCL Press journal UCL Open Environment In June 2021, when the evidence report for the 3rd UK climate risk assessment (CCRA3) was released, talk was of southern England summer temperatures over 40°C being experienced sometime “before 2050” [...]