Dr Steven Phipps is an ice sheet modeller, climate system modeller and palaeoclimatologist, based within the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. His research aims to understand past changes in Antarctica and the climate of the Southern Hemisphere, particularly during the period from the Last Glacial Maximum (around 21,000 years ago) to present. To approach this problem, he uses a combination of ice sheet models, climate system models and natural archives, such as ice cores, tree rings and corals.
The Industrial Revolution kick-started global warming much earlier than we realised
Aug 26, 2016 08:56 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
In the early days of the Industrial Revolution, no one would have thought that their burning of fossil fuels would have an almost immediate effect on the climate. But our new study, published today in Nature, reveals that...
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