This working group, which involves the co-operation of more than a thousand researchers world-wide, is concerned with the scientific and technical aspects of climate change. In Bern, Thomas Stocker has directed and coordinated half a dozen specialists that were gathering the latest findings on the causes and consequences of climate change.
In March and April 2014 the working groups 'Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability' and 'Mitigation of Climate Change' will present their contributions to the fifth IPCC report (AR5). Very few other scientific reports attract the same amount of attention as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report does. The periodic assessment report of the UN's global scientific body on climate change regularly receives worldwide attention. Premier climate scientists from all over the world are involved in compiling it. Previous reports were published in 1990, 1995, 2001 and 2007.
Authors of the AR5 include researchers of the Oeschger Centre. Lead Authors were: Stefan Brönnimann and Karapinar Baris. Heinz Wanner was working as a reviewer on the report.
Thomas Stocker in der Weltwoche (in German)
Politische Wissenschaft
Thomas Stocker in der Neuen Zürcher Zeitung (1. November 2013) (in German):
Der Klimaforscher mit der dicken Haut
Interview with Thomas Stocker (in German):
Der Bund 24.09.2013
www.ipcc.ch
