Meet Richard B. Alley

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Richard B. Alley is a highly notable geoscientist and climate researcher who has made significant contributions to our understanding of Earth's climate system by studying the great ice sheets to help predict future changes in climate and sea level. As a popular author and television presenter, Richard B. Alley has brought the science of ice sheets and climatology to a global audience

Alley led a team of researchers that drilled an ice core in central Greenland, allowing for the reconstruction of past climate conditions. This led to important insights into how Earth's climate has varied over the last 400,000 years.

Alley published a landmark paper in the journal Science, which provided strong evidence that abrupt climate change events, such as those that occurred during the last ice age, could happen again in the future as a result of human-caused climate change.

He was a lead author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fourth Assessment Report, which concluded that the warming of the climate system is unequivocal and that human influence is the dominant cause.

He was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.