Leading Oxford climate scientists today insisted there can be no doubt that human-driven climate change is a fact and urgent action is needed, as the IPCC’s report is released showing emissions are driving up temperatures.
Experts from across the university, including key authors and contributors to the IPCC’s report voiced concerns over the impact of delay.
Dr Friederike Otto, Associate Director of Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute, the lead author of the report’s Chapter 11: Weather and climate extreme events in a changing climate, said: ‘This report shows that already there are a lot of impacts of anthropogenic climate change. Climate change has affected many extreme climate events in every region around the world.
'There are things that we can stop from getting worse by keeping to the targets, but there are a lot of changes that are already here and we need to keep that in mind when thinking about policy.’
Read the full story in response to the IPPC report on ox.ac.uk
