<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Stefan Rahmstorf possess a refreshing capacity to express complex climate science in clear, relatively understandable language that is a much needed antidote to the misinformation, disinformation, oversimplification, pseudo-science, etc. that unfortunately is common on the Internet, social and infotainment media, </div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnzSHsi4pus&t=47s">Extreme Weather: What Role Does Global Warming Play? – the Earth101 lecture - YouTube</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.pik-potsdam.de/~stefan/">Home Page Stefan Rahmstorf (pik-potsdam.de)</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Text below from first website above:</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(3,3,3);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(249,249,249)">Stefan Rahmstorf obtained his PhD in oceanography at Victoria University of Wellington in 1990. He has worked as a scientist at the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute, at the Institute of Marine Science in Kiel and since 1996 at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. His work focuses on the role of the oceans in climate change.
</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(3,3,3);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(249,249,249)"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(3,3,3);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(249,249,249)">In 1999 Rahmstorf was awarded the $ 1 million Centennial Fellowship Award of the US-based James S. McDonnell foundation. Since 2000 he teaches Physics of the Oceans as a professor at Potsdam University. Rahmstorf served from 2004–2013 in the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) and was one of the lead authors of the 4th IPCC Assessment Report.
</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(3,3,3);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(249,249,249)"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(3,3,3);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(249,249,249)">Dr. Rahmstorf has published over 100 scientific papers (30 in leading journals such as Nature, Science and PNAS) and co-authored four books. Available in English are Our Threatened Oceans (2009, with Katherine Richardson) and The Climate Crisis (2010, with David Archer).
</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(3,3,3);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(249,249,249)"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(3,3,3);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(249,249,249)">“Extreme Weather: What Role Does Global Warming Play?” is a part of series of lectures given at the University of Iceland on May 27th 2016 at the conference "The Past, the Future. How Fast, How Far? Threats Facing the Climate System"
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