Abstract
Abstract. The goal of an interdisciplinary team of scientists at the Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS) was to make the findings of the special report IPCC SR1.5 more accessible to the citizens of Hamburg. Therefore, a flyer was created that is understandable to non-climate scientists, visually attractive and generates interest. It contains up-to-date climate information, readily understandable texts and several graphical visualisations. The team has been working intensively on analysing and processing further the consequences of a 1.5 ∘C global warming for the Hamburg metropolitan region. While the team's natural scientists elaborated the impacts on specific climate indices, other team members focused on the visualisation and communication of the results.
Highlights
Global mean surface temperatures have already warmed approximately 1 ◦C above pre-industrial levels, and climate change is becoming visible in many different variables, e.g., rising sea levels, melting glaciers, and more pronounced extreme events
With the aim of delivering readily understandable and useful information to citizens of the Metropolitan Region of Hamburg (MRH), special emphasis was put into the processing of climate data into tangible variables, and on an appealing, meaningful communication
The 8-page flyer “Die Metropolregion Hamburg in einer +1, 5 ◦C wärmeren Welt” intends to break down the comprehensive material provided by the SR1.5 and by regional climate models into concrete, useful information for a specific region, in order to support awareness building and adaptation to climate change in the Metropolitan Region of Hamburg
Summary
Global mean surface temperatures have already warmed approximately 1 ◦C above pre-industrial levels, and climate change is becoming visible in many different variables, e.g., rising sea levels, melting glaciers, and more pronounced extreme events. With the aim of delivering readily understandable and useful information to citizens of the MRH, special emphasis was put into the processing of climate data into tangible variables, and on an appealing, meaningful communication Key to achieving this aim was an interdisciplinary team of natural and social scientists, the use of state of the art climate data, and to work along the principles of effective visual communication. To this end, the 8-page flyer “Die Metropolregion Hamburg in einer +1, 5 ◦C wärmeren Welt” intends to break down the comprehensive material provided by the SR1.5 and by regional climate models into concrete, useful information for a specific region, in order to support awareness building and adaptation to climate change in the Metropolitan Region of Hamburg
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