Colloquium Hot Topics: Peter Cox

Amazon dieback, a real threat or a hoax?

Within the IMAU colloquium series a special series is embedded called “Hot Topics in Climate”. This year the series will be devoted to the carbon cycle and geo-engineering.

In this series we start with a ca 15-minute introduction by an international expert on the topic, which can be a bit provocative emphasizing points where scientists still disagree, or where the science is still controversial, followed by 45 minutes of open discussion.

Our second speaker is Peter Cox who will discuss “Amazon dieback, a real threat or a hoax?”

Peter is professor of climate system dynamics within mathematics at the University of Exeter. Until 2006 he was the Science Director - Climate Change at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, and before that he was working at the Met Office Hadley Centre. He was/is a lead-author on the last three Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR4, AR5, AR6). His current interests revolve around Emergent Constraints on Earth System Sensitivities, Theoretical relationships between climate variability and climate sensitivity and Vegetation Dynamics. He took a leading role in studying vegetation-based abrupt climate change and published on the first example of Amazon dieback in a climate model future warming projection.