Have climate change predictions matched reality? Podcast

How scientists are improving their understanding of the connection between extremes and climate change – and what’s to come. Listen to The Conversation Weekly.

Daniel Merino, Assistant Science Editor & Co-Host of The Conversation Weekly Podcast • conversation
Sept. 23, 2021 • ~5 min

Pinpointing the role of climate change in every storm is impossible – and a luxury most countries can't afford

Rapid attribution studies reveal climate change’s influence on the weather, but they’re expensive and time-consuming.

Luke Harrington, Senior Research Fellow in Climate Science, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington • conversation
Sept. 20, 2021 • ~6 min

How summer 2021 has changed our understanding of extreme weather

Scientists tend to study heatwaves and floods as discrete events – but this overlooks the crucial connections between them.

Christopher J White, Head of the Centre for Water, Environment, Sustainability & Public Health, University of Strathclyde • conversation
July 30, 2021 • ~5 min

Coral reef scientists raise alarm as climate change decimates ocean ecosystems vital to fish and humans

During a 2015 heat wave, scientists watched as a coral reef died before their eyes. By the end of the century, almost all the world's corals will be gone if climate change continues at this pace.

Sam Purkis, Professor and Chair of the Department of Marine Sciences, University of Miami • conversation
July 20, 2021 • ~12 min

Extreme heat warning: what first-ever Met Office alert means

Extreme heat warnings can help change our dangerous relationship with hot weather.

Chloe Brimicombe, PhD Candidate in Climate Change and Health, University of Reading • conversation
July 20, 2021 • ~6 min

World's coral scientists warn action is needed now to save even a few reefs from climate change

During a 2015 heat wave, scientists watched as a coral reef died before their eyes. By the end of the century, almost all the world's corals will be gone if climate change continues at this pace.

Sam Purkis, Professor and Chair of the Department of Marine Sciences, University of Miami • conversation
July 20, 2021 • ~12 min

Climate change: world's lakes are in hot water – threatening rare wildlife

The lives of one in ten of Earth's species are connected to lakes and their tributaries.

Antonia Law, Lecturer in Physical Geography, Keele University • conversation
June 7, 2021 • ~7 min

One in three heat deaths since 1991 linked to climate change – here's how else warming affects our health

Climate change has profound, but often overlooked, consequences for human health.

Hannah Cloke, Professor of Hydrology, University of Reading • conversation
June 1, 2021 • ~6 min

Watching a coral reef die as climate change devastates one of the most pristine tropical island areas on Earth

Scientists watched in real time as rising ocean heat transformed the sprawling reef. It was a harbinger for ecosystems everywhere as the planet warms.

Sam Purkis, Professor and Chair of the Department of Marine Sciences, University of Miami • conversation
April 29, 2021 • ~9 min

Overshadowed by COVID: the deadly extreme weather of 2020

Many storms, heatwaves, fires and droughts slipped under the radar this year.

Wilson Chan, PhD Researcher in Drought Risk, University of Reading • conversation
Dec. 30, 2020 • ~7 min

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