Rahmstorf is a co-founder of the blog
Real Climate, which has been described by
Nature as one of the top-5 science blogs in 2006,[2] and included among the 15 best environmental websites by
Time in 2008.[3] He also co-founded the German blog KlimaLounge.[4]KlimaLounge won the 3rd prize of the science blog award of 2013.[5] He is a frequent contributor of articles on climate and climate change/
global warming in the popular press, some of which are internationally syndicated via
Project Syndicate.[6] He writes a regular column in the German environmental magazine Zeo2,[7] and has published the children's science book Wolken, Wind und Wetter (Clouds, Wind, and Weather) on weather and climate.[8][9] The book was selected as Environmental Book of the Month for January 2012 by the Deutsche Umweltstiftung.[10] In addition, it was later voted Environmental Book of the Year 2012.[11]
Rahmstorf has commented on climate change and climate policy on TV and radio.[12][13][14] He was portrayed as one of the world's 10 leading climate scientists by the
Financial Times in 2009.[15] The
ARD presented a portrait of Rahmstorf in their prime news magazine
Tagesthemen when he received the Deutscher Umweltmedienpreis (German Environmental Media Award) in 2007.[16]
Work
The
University of Flensburg found that among all climate scientists from Germany, Rahmstorf published the largest number of studies which ranked amongst the most-cited in the scientific literature during the years 1994–2013.[17] Rahmstorf was a member of the German
Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) from 2004 till 2013.[18]
Awards and honors
Climate Communication Prize of the American Geophysical Union (2017).[19]
German Environmental Media Award (Deutscher Umweltmedienpreis), for his work on scientific accurate reporting anthropogenic climate change and impacts (2007)[23]
Ganopolski, A., Rahmstorf, S., Petoukhov, V., Claussen, M. (1998). "Simulation of modern and glacial climates with a coupled global climate model". Nature. 391 (6665): 351–6.
Bibcode:
1998Natur.391..351G.
doi:
10.1038/34839.
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