Uploaded July 2018 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
This video introduces the work of the Danube Demonstrator within the H2020_Insurance Project, which focuses on the added value of climate services for the insurance sector and beyond by applying a multi-hazard and risk model suite for the Danube region. Dr. Wortmann outlines the scope and challenges in developing a full scale catastrophe model for the entire Danube basin.
Interviewee: Dr. Michel Wortmann, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Directed by: Sophia Rottmann, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
This video introduces the work of the Danube Demonstrator within the H2020_Insurance Project, which focuses on the added value of climate services for the insurance sector and beyond by applying a multi-hazard and risk model suite for the Danube region. Dr. Wortmann outlines the scope and challenges in developing a full scale catastrophe model for the entire Danube basin.
Interviewee: Dr. Michel Wortmann, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Directed by: Sophia Rottmann, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research



![The Hysteresis of the Antarctic Ice Sheet
The warmer it gets, the faster Antarctica loses ice – and much of it will then be gone forever. Consequences for the world’s coastal cities and cultural heritage sites would be detrimental, from London to Mumbai, and from New York to Shanghai. That’s what a team of researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam University and New York’s Columbia University has found out in their new study, published in Nature (cover story), on how much warming the Antarctic Ice Sheet can survive. In around one million hours of computation time, their unprecedentedly detailed simulations delineate where exactly and at which warming levels the ice would become unstable and eventually melt and drain into the ocean. They find a delicate concert of accelerating and moderating effects, but the main conclusion is that unmitigated climate change would have dire long-term consequences: If the global mean temperature level is sustained long enough at 4 degrees above pre-industrial levels, Antarctic melting alone could eventually raise global sea levels by more than six meters.
The animation shows the modelled long-term evolution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet under steadily increasing temperatures.
The upper panel shows the ice sheets surface elevation change (in meters; grey shading), the ocean-induced melting at the base of the floating ice shelves (in meters per year; purple–orange shading), as well as the topography of the bed underneath the ice sheet and the surrounding ocean (in meters above the present-day sea level; blue–brown shading).
The lower panel shows the total sea-level relevant ice volume change (in meters of sea-level equivalent ; blue curve) and total ice mass flux (in gigatons per year; purple curve).
Abbreviations: EAIS, East Antarctic Ice Sheet; WAIS, West Antarctic Ice Sheet; IS, ice shelf; FRIS, Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf.
For full details, please refer to the publication below.
This video is supplement to the following article: Julius Garbe, Torsten Albrecht, Anders Levermann, Jonathan F. Donges, Ricarda Winkelmann (2020): The hysteresis of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Nature [DOI:10.1038/s41586-020-2727-5]
Weblink to the study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2727-5 The Hysteresis of the Antarctic Ice Sheet](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hOQK1BUuseY/mqdefault.jpg)





![Flipping the switch: making use of carbon price dollars for health and education
While health systems, clean water and education are a plain given in many parts of the world, millions of people still do not have sufficient access to these basic public goods. In fact, carbon prices could make substantial financial resources available for succeeding with the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations, a team of scientists now finds. At the same time, carbon pricing could be a central contribution to meet global climate targets and limit global warming to well below 2°C until the end of the century.
Article: Max Franks, Kai Lessmann, Michael Jakob, Jan Christoph Steckel, Ottmar Edenhofer (2018): Mobilizing Domestic Resources for the Agenda 2030 via Carbon Pricing. Nature Sustainability [DOI: 10.1038/s41893-018-0083-3]
Weblink to the article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41893-018-0083-3
More information:
https://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/press-releases/flipping-the-switch-making-use-of-carbon-price-dollars-for-health-and-education Flipping the switch: making use of carbon price dollars for health and education](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iyAVWX_7sXA/mqdefault.jpg)
