James Martin Fellow, The Institute for New Economic Thinking, University of Oxford
Luke studied Geophysics for his undergraduate degree at the University of Leeds, which included a year abroad studying at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His final year project concentrated upon variability of the Geomagnetic field. Following this, he complete a PhD at University of Leeds where he conducted research in to sea-level change in the circum-Caribbean region. Over the last two years, he has conducted research into future sea-level change over the 21st century at the National Oceanography Centre for the RISES-AM- European consortium project.
At INET, Luke is working on the following project:
Understanding the interaction of human activity and climate change: empirical modelling of energy balance systems
The project concentrates on developing econometric methods to augment climate-economic research by helping disentangle complex relationships between human actions and climate responses and their associated economic effects, masked by stochastic trends and breaks. This will lead to an improved understanding of the impact of humanity on climate and vice versa, on how econometrics can be used in climate-economic research, help create more accurate historical climate records, and reduce uncertainty in socio-economic scenarios for long-run predictions of the resulting climate damages.
Why rising seas will hit some cities more than others
Nov 08, 2016 14:22 pm UTC| Nature
Sea-level rise is a loaded statement and instils concern, scepticism and humour. From a sceptical stand point one could think about your own experience. I have been going to the beach near my parents house on the south...
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