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Climate change is happening now, with extreme weather events, melting ice and sea level rise already occurring – so why aren’t we talking about it in our daily lives? Climate scientist Dr Adam Levy – who vlogs as ClimateAdam – asks himself the same question in a new film on the subject, to be shown...
Scientists from the University of Leeds are among a team of researchers making a return voyage to the Barents Sea to carry out vital research on how climate change is affecting the ecosystem of the Arctic Ocean. The scientific cruise is part of a UK flagship research programme, the Changing Arctic Ocean, funded by the...
University of Leeds Research Fellow Kate Scott has been awarded a NERC Industrial Innovation Fellowship on implementing a climate compatible Industrial Strategy for the UK. Through the Fellowship, Dr Scott, who was the Priestley Centre’s inaugural Piers Sellers PhD prizewinner (2016), will develop methods to downscale global climate assessments for local-level decision making across sectors...
Piers Forster, Director of the Priestley International Centre for Climate, is to lead a newly funded project, Climate Consortium, that will put in place national infrastructure to deliver high impact public engagement with climate change. Climate Consortium will team the Priestley Centre with NCAS (National Centre for Atmospheric Science) and brings together experts on public...
Experts from global scientific assessments, policy and communications have come together at the University of Leeds to teach the next generation of potential lead authors about the process. The trainers, whose experiences include assessments for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), a United Nations...