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Dr Tamsin Edwards

Dr Tamsin Edwards is a climate scientist at King’s College London. She is a Lead Author of the next report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which will be published in 2021. Her work focuses on how confident we can be computer model predictions of climate change, particularly for the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheet contributions to sea level rise. Tamsin provides advice to the UK Government on sea level rise, climate science and science communication, and expert comment to national and international media. She is an award-winning communicator, including through Twitter (@flimsin) and writing articles for the Guardian.

“All models are wrong, but some are useful” — George Box (1919-2013).

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