Stefan Rahmstorf

Rahmstorf is a co-founder of the blog RealClimate, which has been described by Nature as one of the top-5 science blogs in 2006,{{cite journal |title=Top five science blogs |journal=Nature |year=2006 |volume=442 |pmid=16823420 |issue=9 |doi= 10.1038/442009a |pages=9 |bibcode = 2006Natur.442....9. |doi-access=free}} and included among the 15 best environmental websites by Time in 2008.{{cite news|last=Roston|first=Eric|title=RealClimate|url=http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1730759_1731034_1732032,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080421181440/http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1730759_1731034_1732032,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=21 April 2008|access-date=8 January 2012|newspaper=Time|date=17 April 2008}} He also co-founded the German blog KlimaLounge.{{cite web|title=KlimaLounge - Über das Blog|url=http://www.scilogs.de/wblogs/blog/klimalounge/content/about|publisher=SciLogs|access-date=8 January 2012}} KlimaLounge won the 3rd prize of the science blog award of 2013.[http://wissenschaftkommuniziert.wordpress.com/2014/01/02/prosit-2014-der-wissenschafts-blog-des-jahres-2013-ist-gewahlt/ Wissenschaft kommuniziert | Prosit 2014 – Der Wissenschafts-Blog des Jahres 2013 ist gewählt], 2. Januar 2014 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.{{cite web|title=Project Syndicate - Author's Bio|date=11 November 2013 |url=http://www.project-syndicate.org/columnist/stefan-rahmstorf|publisher=Project Syndicate|access-date=8 January 2014}} He writes a regular column in the German environmental magazine Zeo2,{{cite web|title=Zeo2 - Stefan Rahmstorf|url=http://www.zeozwei.de/?s=rahmstorf|access-date=8 January 2012}} and has published the children's science book Wolken, Wind und Wetter (Clouds, Wind, and Weather) on weather and climate.{{cite web|last=Rahmstorf|first=Stefan|title=Buchtipp: Wolken, Wind & Wetter|url=http://www.pik-potsdam.de/~stefan/kinderuni.html|access-date=8 January 2012}}{{cite news|title=Stefan Rahmstorf "Wolken, Wind und Wetter" - Buchmesse 2011|url=http://www.hr-online.de/website/specials/buchmesse2011/index.jsp?rubrik=67983&key=standard_rezension_42618712|archive-url=https://archive.today/20111003015840/http://www.hr-online.de/website/specials/buchmesse2011/index.jsp?rubrik=67983&key=standard_rezension_42618712|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 October 2011|access-date=8 January 2012|newspaper=Hessischer Rundfunk|date=29 September 2011}} The book was selected as Environmental Book of the Month for January 2012 by the Deutsche Umweltstiftung.{{cite web|title=Umweltbuch des Monats Januar 2012: "Wolken, Wind & Wetter"|url=http://www.deutscheumweltstiftung.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=36&Itemid=215|publisher=Deutsche Umweltstiftung|access-date=13 January 2012}} In addition, it was later voted Environmental Book of the Year 2012.{{cite web|title=Umweltbuch des Jahres 2012: "Wolken, Wind & Wetter"|url=http://www.deutscheumweltstiftung.de/index.php/pressearchiv/377-umweltbuch-des-jahres-2012-qwolken-wind-a-wetterq|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140110122819/http://www.deutscheumweltstiftung.de/index.php/pressearchiv/377-umweltbuch-des-jahres-2012-qwolken-wind-a-wetterq|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 January 2014|publisher=Deutsche Umweltstiftung|access-date=10 January 2014}}

Rahmstorf has commented on climate change and climate policy on TV and radio.{{cite news|title=Klimagipfel: "Die Zeit läuft davon"|url=http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/kanaluebersicht/aktuellste/446#/beitrag/video/1516616/Klimagipfel:-%22Die-Zeit-l%C3%A4uft-davon%22|access-date=8 January 2012|newspaper=Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen|date=12 December 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120101044549/http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/kanaluebersicht/aktuellste/446#/beitrag/video/1516616/Klimagipfel:-%22Die-Zeit-l%C3%A4uft-davon%22|archive-date=1 January 2012}}{{cite news|title=Das Kyoto-Protokoll galt ja nur für die Industriestaaten|url=http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/forschak/1626862/|access-date=8 January 2012|newspaper=Deutschlandfunk|date=12 December 2011}}{{cite news|title=Was dem Klima schadet|url=http://www.inforadio.de/programm/schema/sendungen/wissenswerte/201111/166767.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130206174509/http://www.inforadio.de/programm/schema/sendungen/wissenswerte/201111/166767.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=6 February 2013|access-date=8 January 2012|newspaper=Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg|date=28 November 2011}} He was portrayed as one of the world's 10 leading climate scientists by the Financial Times in 2009.{{cite news|last=de Castella|first=Tom|title=Top climate scientists share their outlook|url=http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/f1d9f856-d4ad-11de-a935-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1is325gmr |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/EnLKB |archive-date=11 December 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=8 January 2012|newspaper=Financial Times|date=20 November 2009}} 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.{{cite news|title=Klimaschutz: Gore und UN-Klimarat mit Friedensnobelpreis ausgezeichnet|url=https://www.tagesschau.de/multimedia/video/video246668_bcId-_ply-internal_res-flash256_vChoice-video246668.html|access-date=8 January 2012|newspaper=ARD|date=10 December 2007}}{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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.{{cite web|url=http://www.uni-flensburg.de/fileadmin/content/zentren/nec/dokumente/downloads/datendokumentation-exzellente-deutsche-klimaforschung-spektrum-online-ma-rz-2014.pdf|author=Bernd Sommer|publisher=Universität Flensburg|date=13 March 2014|title=Die zehn meistzitierten Klimastudien aus Deutschland der Jahre 1994-2013}} Rahmstorf was a member of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) from 2004 till 2013.{{cite news|title=WBGU Advisory Council on Global Change|url=http://www.wbgu.de/en/council-members/2013-2016/|access-date=10 January 2014}}

• [https://www.egu.eu/awards-medals/alfred-wegener/ Alfred Wegener Medal], 2024, awarded by the European Geosciences Union to honour a scientist who has achieved exceptional international standing in atmospheric, hydrological or ocean sciences
• Climate Communication Prize of the American Geophysical Union (2017).{{cite journal|url=https://eos.org/agu-news/2017-agu-union-medal-award-and-prize-recipients-announced|title=2017 AGU Union Medal, Award, and Prize Recipients Announced|year=2017|author=AGU}}
• Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (2010){{cite web|url=https://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/in-short/archive/2010/stefan-rahmstorf-elected-fellow-of-the-american-geophysical-union?set_language=en|title=Stefan Rahmstorf elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union|date=17 February 2010|author=PIK}}
• Along with other authors of the IPCC AR4 report, he was honored by the award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize to the IPCC, shared with Al Gore.{{cite journal | last1=Schiermeier | first1=Quirin | last2=Tollefson | first2=Jeff | title=a Nobel cause | journal=Nature News | date=12 October 2007 | url=http://www.nature.com/news/2007/071012/full/news.2007.164.html | doi=10.1038/news.2007.164 | access-date=20 May 2015| url-access=subscription }}
• Honorary Fellow of the University of Wales (2007){{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twya6HcGmVY |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211213/Twya6HcGmVY |archive-date=2021-12-13 |url-status=live|title=Rahmstorf speech, University of Wales award ceremony|date=19 July 2007|publisher=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}
• German Environmental Media Award (Deutscher Umweltmedienpreis), for his work on scientific accurate reporting anthropogenic climate change and impacts (2007){{cite web|url=http://www.wbgu.de/en/press-appointments/press-releases/2007-12-10-v2-press-release/|title=German Environmental Aid 2007 media award goes to Stefan Rahmstorf|date=10 December 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518080025/http://www.wbgu.de/en/press-appointments/press-releases/2007-12-10-v2-press-release/|archive-date=18 May 2015}}
• Centennial Fellowship Award from the James S. McDonnell Foundation, research grant of $1 million (1999){{cite journal|url=https://www.jsmf.org/grants/1999033/|title=Currents of Change|year=1999|author=James S. McDonnell Foundation}}

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An overview of Rahmstorf's publications can be found at his [https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=kyWaQtgAAAAJ&hl=en Google Scholar] profile.

• {{cite journal |doi=10.1038/nclimate2554 |author=Rahmstorf, S.|title=Exceptional twentieth-century slowdown in Atlantic Ocean overturning circulation |journal=Nature Climate Change |volume= 5|issue=5|pages= 475–480|year= 2015|display-authors=etal|bibcode=2015NatCC...5..475R|url=https://eprints.ucm.es/32657/1/robinson10postprint.pdf}}
• {{cite journal |doi=10.1007/s10584-005-4038-0 |author=Rahmstorf, S., Zickfeld, K. |title=Thermohaline circulation changes: a question of risk assessment |journal=Climatic Change |volume=68 |issue=1–2 |pages=241–7 |year=2005 |bibcode=2005ClCh...68..241R |citeseerx=10.1.1.113.9794 |s2cid=155961343 }}
• {{cite journal |author=Rahmstorf, S.|title=Cosmic rays, carbon dioxide and climate |journal=Eos |volume=85 |pages=38, 41 |year=2004 |doi=10.1029/2004EO040002 |issue=4 |bibcode = 2004EOSTr..85...38R |display-authors=etal|doi-access=free }}
• {{cite journal |doi=10.1007/s10236-003-0054-7 |author=Zickfeld, K., Slawig, T., Rahmstorf, S. |title=A low-order model for the response of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation to climate change |journal=Ocean Dynamics |volume=54 |issue=1 |pages=8–26 |year=2004 |bibcode = 2004OcDyn..54....8Z |s2cid=16118901 }}
• {{cite journal |doi=10.1029/2003GL017115 |author=Rahmstorf, S. |title=Timing of abrupt climate change: a precise clock |journal=Geophys. Res. Lett. |volume=30 |pages=1510 |year=2003 |bibcode=2003GeoRL..30.1510R |issue=10|s2cid=15218839 }}
• {{cite journal |doi=10.1038/421699a |author=Rahmstorf, S. |title=Thermohaline circulation: The current climate |journal=Nature |volume=421 |issue=6924 |pages=699 |year=2003 |pmid=12610602 |bibcode = 2003Natur.421..699R |s2cid=4414604 |doi-access=free }}
• {{cite journal |doi=10.1038/nature01090 |author=Rahmstorf, S. |title=Ocean circulation and climate during the past 120,000 years |journal=Nature |volume=419 |issue=6903 |pages=207–214 |year=2002 |pmid=12226675 |bibcode = 2002Natur.419..207R |s2cid=3136307 }}
• {{cite journal |doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.038501 |author=Ganopolski, A., Rahmstorf, S. |title=Abrupt glacial climate changes due to stochastic resonance |journal=Phys. Rev. Lett. |volume=88 |pages=038501 |year=2002 |bibcode=2002PhRvL..88c8501G |issue=3 |pmid=11801092}}
• {{cite journal |author=Rahmstorf, S., Alley, R.B. |title=Stochastic resonance in glacial climate |journal=Eos |volume=83 |pages=129–135 |year=2002 |doi=10.1029/2002EO000078 |issue=12 |bibcode = 2002EOSTr..83..129R |doi-access=free }}
• {{cite journal |doi=10.1038/35051500 |author=Ganopolski, A., Rahmstorf, S. |title=Simulation of rapid glacial climate changes in a coupled climate model |journal=Nature |volume=409 |issue=6817 |pages=153–8 |year=2001 |pmid=11196631 |bibcode=2001Natur.409..153G |s2cid=4304701 }}
• {{cite journal |doi=10.1038/21066 |author=Rahmstorf, S. |title=Shifting seas in the greenhouse? |journal=Nature |volume=399 |pages=523–4 |year=1999 |issue=6736|bibcode = 1999Natur.399..523R |s2cid=4424509 }}
• {{cite journal |doi=10.1038/34839 |author=Ganopolski, A., Rahmstorf, S., Petoukhov, V., Claussen, M. |title=Simulation of modern and glacial climates with a coupled global climate model |journal=Nature |volume=391 |pages=351–6 |year=1998 |issue=6665|bibcode = 1998Natur.391..351G |s2cid=4384039 }}
• {{cite journal |doi=10.1038/42127 |author=Rahmstorf, S. |title=Risk of sea-change in the Atlantic |journal=Nature |volume=388 |pages=825–6 |year=1997 |issue=6645|s2cid=205030058 |doi-access=free |bibcode=1997Natur.388..825R }}
• {{cite journal |doi=10.1038/378145a0 |author=Rahmstorf, S. |title=Bifurcations of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation in response to changes in the hydrological cycle |journal=Nature |volume=378 |pages=145–9 |year=1995 |issue=6553|bibcode = 1995Natur.378..145R |s2cid=4359657 }}
• {{cite journal |doi=10.1038/372082a0 |author=Rahmstorf, S. |title=Rapid climate transitions in a coupled ocean-atmosphere model |journal=Nature |volume=372 |pages=82–5 |year=1994 |issue=6501|bibcode = 1994Natur.372...82R |s2cid=4356661 }}

{{Reflist}}

• [http://www.scilogs.de/klimalounge/author/rahmstorf/ Stefan Rahmstorf's blog at KlimaLounge]
• [http://www.pik-potsdam.de/~stefan/ Personal website]
• [http://www.realclimate.org Climate-science blog with contributions from Stefan Rahmstorf]
• [http://knowledge.allianz.com/en/globalissues/climate_change/global_warming_basics/rahmstorf_climate_sceptics.html Interview with Stefan Rahmstorf about Climate Deniers and Climate Myths]

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