Cluster of ExcellenceClimate, Climatic Change,
and Society (CLICCS)

When it comes to climate change, many people rely on the media to keep informed. But how our future could look like is portrayed in a variety of ways. Journalists create powerful visions that can promote climate-friendly behavior. A team led by Prof. Michael Brüggemann and Dr. Lars Guenther has investigated how these images...

On December 18, 2002, a massive cold-air front formed in the Arctic Ocean. The icy air blew from the North Pole and across the Arctic sea ice. Over open waters it swelled into a several-hundred-meter-high wall between Greenland and Russia. When this cold dry air meets warm moist air over the ice-free ocean, turbulences...

Tipping points aren’t just found in the physical climate system. In societies, too, there can be massive, abrupt and irreversible upheavals, e.g. when widespread dissatisfaction leads to revolutions or escalates into spirals of violence.

We still know too little about the mutual influences between climate change and...