One year on from its formal launch the Priestley International Centre for Climate has 187 members with representation across eight faculties, three new Chairs, 22 University Academic Fellows and an interdisciplinary doctoral programme, as well as seeing an increase in the number of academics involved in climate related research across the University of Leeds. The information is included in a new...
Piers Forster writes about how a classic paper published in the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences laid the foundations of modern climate models in a Nature News and Views piece, published today. Describing the 1967 paper by Syukuro Manabe and Richard Wetherald as "arguably the greatest climate science paper of all time", Prof Forster says...
A new film featuring academics from the Priestley International Centre for Climate shows that scientists are optimistic about the prospects of managing climate change if public opinion accepts lifestyle changes. The climate scientists talk about the need for everyone to play their part in tackling the problem and the opportunities for health and the environment. They also...
It is the year 2150 and Yorkshire has become “Elmet”, a regenerative anti-fragile society made up of a polyopolis of hub towns across the southern bioregion of the United North, stretching around the “Bay of York” and developed out of the old counties covering the river catchments of the Swale, Ure and Nidd, among others....
Participants at an event in Leeds came up with new solutions to reduce carbon emissions as part of a 24-hour global challenge to solve climate change. Students and stakeholders in Leeds joined citizens in world cities such as Paris and Shanghai simultaneously taking part in the hackathon-style Climathon event. The Climate-KIC Climathon brought together major...