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Co-Chair of the IPCC Working Group I

About Valérie Masson-Delmotte

In the summer of 2018, as Co-Chair of IPCC Working Group I, she led the final approval of the Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C, a document that redefined policy urgency by showing how half a degree separates widespread coral reef collapse from partial survival, and how limiting warming to 1.5°C requires unprecedented societal transformation, not just emissions cuts. Her work bridges paleoclimatology and modern modeling: she co-developed methods to integrate ice-core isotopic records with CMIP6 simulations, enabling tighter constraints on climate sensitivity. Based at LSCE near Paris, she insists on transparency in uncertainty quantification, not as caveats, but as decision-relevant information. She has testified before the French National Assembly on the physical basis for carbon budgets, emphasizing that atmospheric CO₂ concentrations are now higher than at any point in the last 800,000 years, a fact she traces not to models alone, but to meticulous calibration across Antarctic, Greenland, and marine sediment archives.

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Did Valérie Masson-Delmotte contribute to the IPCC's definition of 'carbon budget'?
Yes, she co-led the development of observationally constrained carbon budget estimates in AR6 WG I Chapter 5 and the SR15. Her team integrated atmospheric CO₂ growth rates, ocean sink estimates from GO-SHIP data, and land sink uncertainties from FLUXNET, producing the first IPCC assessment to explicitly separate remaining budgets for 1.5°C and 2°C under varying non-CO₂ forcing assumptions.
What is her role in the Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project (PMIP)?
She served as PMIP4 co-chair and helped design the Last Interglacial (129, 116 ka) experimental protocol. Her group used δ¹⁸O and δD in Antarctic ice cores to validate model-simulated hydrological changes, revealing systematic biases in Southern Hemisphere monsoon responses that later informed CMIP6 model tuning.
Has she published on the relationship between stratospheric water vapor and surface warming?
Yes, her 2013 Nature Geoscience paper linked decadal variability in lower-stratospheric H₂O to tropical tropopause temperature trends, demonstrating how this feedback amplifies surface warming by ~5, 10% in CMIP5 models. This work directly informed WG I’s treatment of stratospheric processes in AR5 Chapter 8.
What distinguishes her approach to communicating uncertainty in climate projections?
She pioneered the use of 'confidence matrices' that cross-tabulate evidence type (e.g. instrumental, paleo, model) against agreement level, moving beyond simple 'low/medium/high confidence' labels. This framework was adopted in AR6 Annex I and emphasizes how different lines of evidence converge or diverge on specific processes like cloud-aerosol interactions.
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