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"I can hardly believe my luck: to interview the greatest climate researcher of our times!" Hella Wittmeier writes in "Captain Climate – Talking to WALLY BROECKER Part I" for ClimateSnack.

A new report shows that global emissions of carbon dioxide from the combustion of fossil fuels will reach 9,8 gigaton carbon (GtC) in 2013, which is 61% above the emissions in 1990.

Time is short to reach the two-degree target. This will demand an ambitious transformation to a low emission world and preferably the world’s leaders will be able to negotiate a global climate treaty from 2015.

A new study demonstrates that natural variability in the Arctic is large, and is not conflicting the global warming trend.
 

Jacob Bjerknes, the father of modern weather forecasting, suggested that there would be a connection between European weather and temperatures in the North Atlantic. Fifty years later, Bjerknes Centre in Bergen helps to prove that Bjerknes was right in his prediction.

How hot was it really three million years ago? Samples at Uni Climate’s new laboratory may help to provide the answer. 

Mathew Reeve has created an alternative way to climate blogging. The blog is based around an improvement-by-doing ideology.

In a new study, scientists suggest that the pattern of ocean circulation was radically altered in the past when climates were warmer.

Each year young scientists spend some weeks at summer school to learn even more about climate research. This year’s ACDC will be held in Vesterålen.


Camille Li has left the Bjerknes Centre and Bergen for a few months, choosing New York to learn even more about climate research.