Prof Detlef van Vuuren: The climate scientist most cited by the IPCC
Why this matters: environmental and climate reporting with long-term consequences.
Detlef van Vuuren is one of the world’s leading climate modellers and, as a result, a high-profile focus of his life’s work – the “RCP8.5” scenario – has recently been targeted as “wrong, wrong, wrong” by Donald Trump. Speaking to Carbon Brief at his office in the Hague, Van Vuuren cuts a serious, but relaxed figure – despite, momentarily, being caught in the white heat of global media attention following the social-media post by the climate-sceptic US president. Leading a team of modellers at PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency in the Dutch administrative capital, Van Vuuren also holds a professorship at the faculty of geosciences at Utrecht University. Analysis of Carbon Brief’s Cosmos database reveals that, out of many thousands of researchers, he is the author most cited within all the reports published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 1990. The post Prof Detlef van Vuuren: The climate scientist most cited by the IPCC appeared first on Carbon Brief.