Stefan Rahmstorf is Professor of Physics of the Oceans at Potsdam University and Department Head at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. His most recent book is The Climate Crisis.
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Stefan Rahmstorf
Commentaries by Stefan Rahmstorf
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Melting on Top of the World
POTSDAM – In 1845, Captain Sir John Franklin of the British Royal Navy led 128 men on two iron-plated steam ships, Erebus and Terror, into t…
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The Vanishing Arctic
BERLIN – Largely unnoticed, a silent drama has been unfolding over the past weeks in the Arctic. The long-term consequences will far outstri…
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Our Summer of Extremes
BERLIN – This summer has been one of weather-related extremes in Russia, Pakistan, China, Europe, the Arctic – you name it. But does this ha…
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The Heat Age
BERLIN – This April was the hottest April on record, globally, for at least 130 years, according to the worldwide temperature records mainta…
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The Scientific Road to Copenhagen
BERLIN – On June 10, 1859, six months before Charles Darwin published his Origin of Species , the physicist John Tyndall demonstrated a r…
Melting on Top of the World
jimmy rousseau: It is quite possible that there will be an ice free summer before 2020. The consequences of this are unfathomable, sun absorbed by dark water will exacerbate the warming. Methane released from the arc…
Melting on Top of the World
Zsolt Hermann: The tragedy of the situation is that every time these issues are raised immediate arguments break out about the "human involvement" in the environmental changes and usually the we run into a dead end.…