Friederike Otto

Friederike Elly Luise "Fredi" Otto (* 1982 in Kiel ) is a German climatologist . She is executive director of the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford .

Live and act

Otto completed a degree in physics and a doctorate in philosophy at the Free University of Berlin .

Otto is a co-founder and a leading representative of mapping research , with the help of which it is possible to map extreme weather events to climate change .

Your work, u. a. As a leading scientist in the international project World Weather Attribution , she focuses on extreme weather events ( droughts , heat waves , precipitation ) and the improvement and development of methods to answer the question of the influence of external climate drivers on the probability of extreme weather. It also examines the resulting political implications. Their calculations on the contribution of climate change to the drought and heat in Europe in 2018 were taken up by the press worldwide.

Her non-fiction book Wütendes Wetter - In search of the culprits for heat waves, floods and storms (2019) came in the summer of 2019 several times on the top of the common “non-fiction best list” of ZDF, DLF Kultur and Die Zeit. It describes the contemporary extreme weather phenomena from the point of view of the novel allocation research, its field of work within climate science. It is clearly shown how data can be evaluated using differential analysis, relationships established and probabilities calculated. The Deutschlandfunk reviewer praised the easily understandable language and structure. In the book, Otto questions the attainability of the two-degree goal . So she asks in the book: “Three degrees? Isn't that an extremely unrealistic scenario, after all, in the Paris Agreement , the world community agreed to limit global warming to 2 degrees, if possible even to 1.5 degrees. No, from today's perspective it is by no means unrealistic - it is exactly the brand we are currently heading for. "

Otto also comments on the current debate about climate measures. She commented critically on the resolutions of the Climate Cabinet in 2019: “It is extremely disappointing to see that the federal government continues to make politics out of fear of change. So there will have to be a new climate package very quickly and nothing will be achieved, the necessary step will be further delayed. "

Publications (selection)

Books

• Friederike Otto, Angry Weather - Searching for the culprits for heat waves, floods and storms , Ullstein, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-5500-5092-3 .

Journal articles

• Friederike EL Otto (2017). Attribution of weather and climate events. Annual Review of Environment and Resources , 42, 627-646. doi: 10.1146 / annurev-environ-102016-060847
• Friederike EL Otto, Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Jonathan Eden, Peter A. Stott, David J. Karoly, Myles R. Allen (2016). The attribution question. Nature Climate Change, 6, 813-816. doi: 10.1038 / nclimate3089
• Friederike EL Otto, Emily Boyd , Richard G. Jones , Rosalind J. Cornforth , Rachel James , Hannah R. Parker and Myles R. Allen (2015). Attribution of extreme weather events in Africa: a preliminary exploration of the science and policy implications. Climatic Change , 132 (4), 531-543. doi: 10.1007 / s10584-015-1432-0
• Friederike EL Otto, N. Massey, GJ van Oldenborgh, RG Jones, MR Allen (2012). Reconciling two approaches to the attribution of the 2010 Russian heat wave. Geophysical Research Letters , 39 (4). doi: 10.1029 / 2011GL050422

Web links

• Short biography and reviews of works by Friederike Otto at perlentaucher.de
• Friederike Otto - physicist, philosopher and climate researcher - TV interview

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Climate researcher on the hot summer - "Climate change happens in the front yard". taz , accessed on October 16, 2019 . 
2. ^ Friederike Otto at Ullstein Buchverlag. Ullstein Verlag , accessed on January 19, 2019 . 
3. ↑ People: Dr Friederike Otto. Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford , accessed January 19, 2019 . 
4. ↑ https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/bitstream/handle/fub188/5538/dissertation_final_otto.pdf
5. ↑ The German researcher Friederike Otto wants to solve one of the greatest climate puzzles . In: Tagesspiegel , April 17, 2019. Retrieved April 20, 2019.
6. ^ Portrait of Friederike Otto (ZDF). In: ARD-alpha nano. July 3, 2019, accessed July 8, 2019 . 
7. ↑ What does Hurricane "Irma" have to do with climate change, Ms. Otto? In: Der Spiegel. 2017, accessed July 8, 2019 . 
8. ↑ ^{a b c} Stefan Schmitt: Extreme weather: Is that still weather or is it already the climate? Zeit Online , October 3, 2018, accessed January 19, 2019 . 
9. ↑ ^{a b} Dr Friederike Otto - Environmental Change Institute. Retrieved January 19, 2019 . 
10. ↑ The 10 best non-fiction books in July and August , Deutschlandfunk Kultur from June 26, 2019, accessed July 23, 2019
11. ↑ Johannes Kaiser: A physicist explains the consequences of global warming , Deutschlandfunk Kultur from June 7, 2019, accessed July 23, 2019
12. ↑ Josh Groeneveld: Climate researcher on Groko climate package: "Extremely disappointing", "Alibi function", "Cosmetics" .
13. ↑ The interview. Friederike Otto - physicist, philosopher and climate researcher . 24 min. ARD audio library. First broadcast on hr-iNFO on June 18, 2019. Accessed July 9, 2019.