Press coverage of the CPDN project, University of Oxford
Press Coverage
April 2018
- Climate change and extreme weather: Science is proving the link, Deutsche Welle
March 2018
- Red Cross Turns to Climate Attribution Science to Prepare for Disasters Ahead, Inside Climate News
- Climate computer modelling needs to be greener, Deutsche Welle
- Europe Saw a Spike in Extreme Weather Over Past 5 Years, Science Academies Say, Inside Climate News
February 2018
- The Year Climate Change Began to Spin Out of Control, MIT Technology Review (references Attribution of extreme rainfall from Hurricane Harvey, August 2017, Environmental Research Letters, Vol 12, No. 12)
- If Climate Change Wrecks your City, Can It Sue Exxon?, The Verge
- Is the UK cold snap linked to climate change? Prospect Magazine
January 2018
- Humans did not cause the US cold snap, Scientific American
- In a fast-warming world, scientists say recent cold wave was exceptionally weird, The Washington Post
- Scientists can now blame individual natural disasters on climate change, Scientific American
- Cold snaps just ain’t what they used to be, scientists find, MashableUK
December 2017
- Global warming made Hurricane Harvey deadly rains three times more likely, research reveals, The Guardian
- Influential investors urge 100 companies to step up climate action, GreenBiz
- Studies increasingly link extreme weather to climate change, The Ecologist
- 2017 in numbers: a 130-tonne fatberg of stats, The Guardian
November 2017
- How Responsible is Each Country When an Extreme Climate Event Strikes?, Inside Climate News
- Europe and the US were most responsible for deadly heatwave, New Scientist
- Global warming is increasingly being fought in the courtoom, The Economist
- How climate change is playing havoc with olive oil (and farmers), The Record.com
October 2017
- The Fires in California, Portugal and Spain Share One Thing in Common, UN Dispatch (In-Depth Analysis)
September 2017
- Climate change made Lucifer heatwave far more likely, scientists find, The Guardian
- ‘Hellish’ heat waves could become norm in Europe – study, RT.com
- Scorching ‘Lucifer heatwaves set to melt Europe, New York Post
- From Heat Waves to Hurricanes: What We Know About Extreme Weather and Climate Change, New York Times
- ANALYSIS-Hurricane Harvey’s aftermath could see pioneering climate lawsuits, Reuters
August 2017
- Hurricane Harvey: The link to climate change, BBC News
- Link between Hurricane Harvey and climate change is unclear, Climate Home News (guest post by Friederike Otto)
- Is tropical storm Harvey linked to climate change?, The Guardian
- Houston floods: Hurricane Harvey is exactly the time to talk about climate change, New Statesman
July 2017
- Droughts in East Africa: some headway in unpacking what’s causing them, The Conversation (by Friederike Otto and Maarten van Aalst (Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre)
- Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world, Carbon Brief (analysis of 144 ‘extreme event attribution’ studies)
- The G-20 should put climate change at the top of its list, The Washington Post
June 2017
May 2017
February 2017
December 2016
- Spiking Temperatures in the Arctic Startle Scientists, The New York Times
- Africa gears up for first-of-a-kind climate impact study, Climate Home News
June 2016
February 2016
August 2015
- Digging for data on Africa’s climate future, SciDev.net
July 2015
- Warming Doubles Chances of European Heat Wave, Climate Central
- Speedy study claims climate change doubled chances of European heatwave, Nature
Weather@home 2015: Western US Drought Experiment
July 2015
- ‘Blob’ brings complex, serious changes to West Coast, New 10 ABC
- Scientists recruit public to help study “The Blob”, Phys.org
May 2014
Results from weather@home 2014 UK Flooding Experiment
April 2014
- Climate change ‘making extreme rainfall in England more likely’, The Guardian
- Global warming makes very wet winters ‘more likely’, University of Oxford news site
- Climate change makes extreme weather more likely to hit UK, Nature news
- Massive citizen-powered climate simulation links winter floods to global warming, The Conversation
- Global warming making wet winters more likely, NERC Planet Earth Online
- Oxford project finds wet winters are on the rise, ITV Meridian
- Climate change will bring more wet winters to England, The Weather Channel
- Climate change is making extremely wet winters in the UK 25 per cent more likely, study concludes, The Carbon Brief
- UK’s Wettest January Linked to Climate Change, Auto World News
Launch of weather@home ANZ 2013: the causes of recent heatwaves and drought in Australia and New Zealand
March 2014
- How your computer could reveal what’s driving record rain and heat in Australia and NZ, The Conversation
- Crowdsourcing website predicts climate change, 3 News, New Zealand
- 10,000 people to research link between humans and Australia’s record heat, The Guardian
- NIWA seeks amateur climate scientists, New Zealand Herald
Launch of weather@home 2014 UK Flooding Experiment
March 2014
- Home computers to help scientists assess climate role in UK’s wet winter, Guardian
- Citizen scientists test influence of climate change on UK winter deluge: results pour in, Guardian Environment Blog
Outstanding research impact Runner up
February 2013
Will.i.am and Professor Myles Allen discuss discuss weather@home and Intel’s Progress thru Processors
May 2012
- Will.i.am and Oxford Professor discuss creative technology and climate change, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford
- Will.i.am arrives by helicopter for flying visit to climate event. The Guardian
- We shouldn’t fret about the carbon footprint of Will.i.am’s helicopter Guardian Environment Blog
- That’s not very green: The Voice judge Will.i.am turns up to climate change debate in a massive gas-guzzling helicopter. The Mail online
- Will.i.am attends climate change talk in helicopter The Telegraph online
- Bad boy Will.i.am in huge chopper shocker. The Daily Star
Results from the BBC climate change experiment
March 2012
- Temperatures could rise by 3C by 2050, models suggest, BBC News online
- 10,000 climate models predict significant global temperature rise, Wired.co.uk, Duncan Geere
- Earth warming faster than expected, ScienceNOW (US), Sid Perkins
- Study: Global temperatures could rise 5 degrees by 2050, USA Today online
- Study: Global temps may jump 5 degrees by 2050, Azcentral.com
- Temperatures ‘could rise by 3C by 2050′, News Track India
- Temperatures ‘could rise by 3°C by 2050’, The Hindu (India)
- Scientists issue emission warning, Morning Star
- Fears of 3C global warming by 2050, Daily Express online
- Fears of 3C global warming by 2050, Evening Standard online
- IRI News