Why is 2 °C such an important number? The case for radical mitigation — Alice Bows-Larkin04:33

Conway Hall, London, 1 October 2014, with:

Friederike Otto, post-doctoral research fellow, University of Oxford

Alice Bows-Larkin, reader, University of Manchester, UK

Peter Stott, head of climate monitoring and attribution, UK Met Office

One of the irritating things about climate change is that its effects are often unpredictable and invisible. These factors only increase controversy. But scientists are working to expose its impacts: to understand whether the extreme weather events we’re seeing are linked to increased carbon in the atmosphere and to identify what we need to do to starve off the dangerous consequences of climate change.