“Acceptance Speech” Frontiers of Knowledge Award 2023 in Climate Change

Acceptance speech by Thomas F. Stocker, winner of the 2023 Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change, who was honored alongside Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Jean Jouzel, Valérie Masson-Delmotte and Jakob Schwander for demonstrating the relationship between greenhouse gases and atmospheric temperatures over the past 800,000 years. His research has combined polar ice core analysis with climate modelling to understand past climate variations and the mechanisms driving them.

Stocker reviews two major scientific contributions: the reconstruction of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations from the EPICA ice cores and the development of the thermal bipolar seesaw model, which explains how abrupt climate changes in the North Atlantic affect the Southern Ocean. He also highlights the importance of international scientific collaboration and emphasizes researchers’ responsibility to communica

Acceptance speech by Thomas F. Stocker, winner of the 2023 Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change, who was honored alongside Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Jean Jouzel, Valérie Masson-Delmotte and Jakob Schwander for demonstrating the relationship between greenhouse gases and atmospheric temperatures over the past 800,000 years. His research has combined polar ice core analysis with climate modelling to understand past climate variations and the mechanisms driving them.

Stocker reviews two major scientific contributions: the reconstruction of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations from the EPICA ice cores and the development of the thermal bipolar seesaw model, which explains how abrupt climate changes in the North Atlantic affect the Southern Ocean. He also highlights the importance of international scientific collaboration and emphasizes researchers’ responsibility to communicate their findings to society, drawing on his experience with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).