Keynote Speech:Coping with COPs: how to make sense of change in climate science and policy
Biography
Dr Tamsin Edwards is a climate scientist specialising in quantifying the uncertainties of climate model predictions, particularly for the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheet contributions to sea level rise. She was a Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report published in 2021 and a contributing Author to the IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (2019). Tamsin regularly provides expert advice on climate science to the public, policymakers, media and businesses. She is an award-winning communicator, including through Twitter (@flimsin), her blog for the Public Library of Science, PLoS (All Models Are Wrong) and articles for the Guardian. She also leads the King's Climate Hub of climate change researchers.
Tamsin also co-presents the BBC Radio 4 series “39 Ways to Save the Planet”.