Q&A with Guy Brasseur: Communicating Science

How can ordinary people be familiarised with science? Few other researchers have devoted as much attention to this question as the Belgian atmospheric scientist Guy Brasseur. From 2009 to 2014, he was head of the Climate Service Center (CSC) in Hamburg, whose task is to communicate the latest climate research findings to politicians, scientists, and business people. Before he joined the Climate Service Center, Guy Brasseur headed the Earth and Sun Systems Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. From 1999 to 2005 he was also Director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and head of the German Climate Computing Center in Hamburg. He is one of the main authors of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, for which the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in 2007.