The magazine of the european research area European Commission Copenhagen, a missed chance?

  8    “We have done terribly little compared 

with the immensity of the problem.” 

Interview with Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, 

Vice-Chair of the IPCC, professor at the 

Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics 

at the Catholic University of Louvain (BE). 

Oceans

 10  The Big Blue turns acidic

In the shadow of global warming there 

is ocean acidification, also caused by CO

2

 

anthropic emissions.

Transport

 12   Goodbye petrol

Focus on the NEMO project, which is 

seeking to produce second generation 

biofuels, most notably from plant waste.

Climate models 

 14   The tools of diagnosis

Scientific predictions of Europe’ s climate 

are obtaining a new level of detail. For the 

first time, we also have methods that enable 

us to judge their precision. 

Climate scepticism