The many faces of Vicky Pope

British eco-migrants flee to New Zealand - Times Online

NEW ZEALAND is seeing its first influx of British eco-migrants, environmental refugees who have quit the UK because they fear the long-term impacts of climate change.
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Scientists agree that New Zealand is likely to be more resilient to any global warming than many other countries — but that could lead to problems with immigration. Dr Vicky Pope, head of climate change advice at Britain’s Met Office, said: “A lot of countries in temperate zones could come under pressure to take eco-migrants.”

Feb '09: Vicky Pope: Climate change scientists must rein in misleading extreme weather claims

News headlines vie for attention and it is easy for scientists to grab this attention by linking climate change to the latest extreme weather event or apocalyptic prediction. But in doing so, the public perception of climate change can be distorted.
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For climate scientists, having to continually rein in extraordinary claims that the latest extreme is all due to climate change is, at best, hugely frustrating and, at worst, enormously distracting.

Bishop Hill blog - Vicky Pope on climate change

# a 1 degree warming will lead to irreversible changes in marine ecosystems
# a 2 degree warming will lead to the irreversible loss of the Greenland ice sheet and over longer timescales to a 7m rise in sea levels
# a 3 degree warming will lead to the loss of the Amazon rainforest.