“Science identified the problem of climate change as early as the late 1970s, but the response has been extremely slow. The time to act is now”

Recognized with the 16th BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change, Thomas Stocker delves into the dynamics of the climate system and the thresholds that could trigger abrupt changes. He explains how scientific modeling has made it possible to understand human influence on global warming and underscores the urgency of taking action to avoid irreversible effects.

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change has gone in this sixteenth edition to Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Jean Jouzel, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Jakob Schwander and Thomas F. Stocker “for contributions to the polar ice core records that establish a fundamental coupling between greenhouse gases and air temperature characterizing climate change over the past 800,000 years”.