Securing Multidisciplinary UndeRstanding and Prediction of Hiatus and Surge events (SMURPHS)
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Reading
Department Name: Meteorology
Abstract
Climate is currently changing mostly because of additional greenhouse gases, emitted through human activity, which are heating up the planet. Since future warming of climate is likely to cause damage to societies, governments are coordinating efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to avoid these damaging consequences. However, despite the continuing rises in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, the rate of warming of the Earth's surface has declined somewhat since the 1990s. While it is tempting to find a simple reason for this slowing (or "hiatus") in global surface warming, the climate system is extremely complex and there are many factors which can explain the lumps and bumps in the surface temperature record which also include increases (or "surges") in the rate of warming. The goal of our proposed programme of research is to understand much more fully how all the contributing factors can explain past hiatus and surge (H/S) events and this will ultimately help improve predictions of future climate change over the coming decades and far into the future.
The potential causes of H/S events includes: natural (so-called unforced) climate variability, due to complex interplay between the atmosphere, oceans and land; natural climate change due to volcanic eruptions or changes in the brightness of the sun; changes in how heat is moved into the deep oceans due to natural variations or human-caused factors; changes in emissions of gases such as methane due to human activity; limitations in the distribution of temperature observations, such that the hiatus is partly an artefact of imperfect observations. Rather than one single cause it is likely that H/S events are caused by a combination of factors. This is why a large team with a broad range of expertise is required to evaluate the different processes together. Our project, Securing Multidisciplinary UndeRstanding and Prediction of Hiatus and Surge events (SMURPHS) has brought together a comprehensive community of researchers from 9 UK institutes supported by 5 project partners including the Met Office who are experts in the atmosphere, the oceans and the land surface.
SMURPHS has 3 broad objectives, achieved through 6 research themes, which exploit theory, observations and detailed computer modelling. Objective 1 is to build a basic framework for interpreting H/S events in terms of energy moving between the atmosphere and ocean and to determine characteristics of and similarities between H/S events. Objective 2 is to understand mechanisms that could trigger H/S events and extend their length, considering both human and natural factors. Objective 3 is to assess whether H/S events can be predicted and what information is needed for near-term prediction of climate over coming decades which is important for how societies adapt to change. To meet these objectives scientists from a range of different disciplines will work on each of these possibilities and communicate their findings across the team. SMURPHS will produce a wide-ranging synthesis of its results.
SMURPHS will have many beneficiaries. Beyond the global scientific community, improved understanding of H/S events is important at national and international levels for designing policies to control future greenhouse gas emissions and for effective adaptation to climate change. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessments have deeply influenced climate policy development at the international and national levels. Scientists involved in SMURPHS have contributed significantly to previous IPCC reports, and SMURPHS science and scientists would contribute significantly to future such assessments.
The potential causes of H/S events includes: natural (so-called unforced) climate variability, due to complex interplay between the atmosphere, oceans and land; natural climate change due to volcanic eruptions or changes in the brightness of the sun; changes in how heat is moved into the deep oceans due to natural variations or human-caused factors; changes in emissions of gases such as methane due to human activity; limitations in the distribution of temperature observations, such that the hiatus is partly an artefact of imperfect observations. Rather than one single cause it is likely that H/S events are caused by a combination of factors. This is why a large team with a broad range of expertise is required to evaluate the different processes together. Our project, Securing Multidisciplinary UndeRstanding and Prediction of Hiatus and Surge events (SMURPHS) has brought together a comprehensive community of researchers from 9 UK institutes supported by 5 project partners including the Met Office who are experts in the atmosphere, the oceans and the land surface.
SMURPHS has 3 broad objectives, achieved through 6 research themes, which exploit theory, observations and detailed computer modelling. Objective 1 is to build a basic framework for interpreting H/S events in terms of energy moving between the atmosphere and ocean and to determine characteristics of and similarities between H/S events. Objective 2 is to understand mechanisms that could trigger H/S events and extend their length, considering both human and natural factors. Objective 3 is to assess whether H/S events can be predicted and what information is needed for near-term prediction of climate over coming decades which is important for how societies adapt to change. To meet these objectives scientists from a range of different disciplines will work on each of these possibilities and communicate their findings across the team. SMURPHS will produce a wide-ranging synthesis of its results.
SMURPHS will have many beneficiaries. Beyond the global scientific community, improved understanding of H/S events is important at national and international levels for designing policies to control future greenhouse gas emissions and for effective adaptation to climate change. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessments have deeply influenced climate policy development at the international and national levels. Scientists involved in SMURPHS have contributed significantly to previous IPCC reports, and SMURPHS science and scientists would contribute significantly to future such assessments.
Planned Impact
1. The World Climate Research Program (WCRP) 6th Climate Model Intercomparison (CMIP6) Committee, participating climate research centres, and the international research community will benefit from new radiative forcing scenarios with quantified uncertainties promoted through WCRP/CMIP6 planning meetings. SMURPHS will contribute directly to the CMIP6 plans and host relevant meetings during the project. The SMURPHS webpage will provide the latest information to the international modelling centres and a contact list will be drawn up for provision of regular notifications.
2. International policy makers representing governments in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations; National policy makers in the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and the Committee for Climate Change (CCC) and European Union counterparts; and International and national non-governmental organisations (NGOs) will benefit from improved understanding of decadal variability in global mean surface temperature rise and of the relationship between short term and longer term trends.
Two critical issues for these groups are: (i) implications of the recent hiatus for long term climate change (mitigation policy), and (ii) constraints on the rate of climate change over the next few decades (adaptation policy). We will organize two international workshops to synthesize research findings and bring together additional international perspectives to provide an overall assessment. Key outputs will be two assessment papers for input to the Sixth Assessment Report of the IPCC (AR6). Lack of complete understanding of the hiatus was a major gap in IPCC AR5, which SMURPHS will address directly. As part of these workshops, a discussion session will be held with invited policymakers from DECC and other government departments to explore the implications of our findings. We also plan to hold a side event on historic temperature trends at a UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (expected in December 2017).
3. The Met Office (MO) has strategic plans to improve near term prediction of climate change and with DECC/DEFRA and CCC will produce revised mitigation pathways to avoid dangerous climate change. The MO will benefit from improved quantification of past radiative forcing and understanding of variability in global-mean surface temperature rise, resulting in improved models and predictions. A close working relationship with the MO is established and a coordinated programme of work has been designed. MO colleagues will attend project meetings and SMURPHS PDRAs will spend time based at the MO. The Met Office Academic Partnership involving the Universities of Exeter, Leeds, Oxford and Reading provides an additional mechanism for collaboration.
4. The general public and the media. SMURPHS will benefit the interested public by enabling clearer and more precise explanations of the hiatus and implications for long-term climate change. Several media articles used poor understanding of the hiatus to challenge the Government's emission reduction targets in 2013. In response the Science Media Centre (SMC) prepared a briefing note on the hiatus with significant contributions from Forster, Sutton, Allan and Hawkins. We will work with the SMC to update this briefing note at the end of the project, and will discuss holding a briefing meeting for interested journalists. Shine is very active in ongoing Royal Society efforts to explain climate change science to a wide audience via a number of activities, and expects to continue to be so during SMURPHS. Outputs from the project will be written up in a form that is accessible for the interested general public on Hawkins' climate-lab-book blog which also provides a mechanism for public engagement and feedback. Key findings will be communicated on Twitter. All PIs and Co-Is have press experience and engagement with the media will continue throughout the project.
2. International policy makers representing governments in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations; National policy makers in the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and the Committee for Climate Change (CCC) and European Union counterparts; and International and national non-governmental organisations (NGOs) will benefit from improved understanding of decadal variability in global mean surface temperature rise and of the relationship between short term and longer term trends.
Two critical issues for these groups are: (i) implications of the recent hiatus for long term climate change (mitigation policy), and (ii) constraints on the rate of climate change over the next few decades (adaptation policy). We will organize two international workshops to synthesize research findings and bring together additional international perspectives to provide an overall assessment. Key outputs will be two assessment papers for input to the Sixth Assessment Report of the IPCC (AR6). Lack of complete understanding of the hiatus was a major gap in IPCC AR5, which SMURPHS will address directly. As part of these workshops, a discussion session will be held with invited policymakers from DECC and other government departments to explore the implications of our findings. We also plan to hold a side event on historic temperature trends at a UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (expected in December 2017).
3. The Met Office (MO) has strategic plans to improve near term prediction of climate change and with DECC/DEFRA and CCC will produce revised mitigation pathways to avoid dangerous climate change. The MO will benefit from improved quantification of past radiative forcing and understanding of variability in global-mean surface temperature rise, resulting in improved models and predictions. A close working relationship with the MO is established and a coordinated programme of work has been designed. MO colleagues will attend project meetings and SMURPHS PDRAs will spend time based at the MO. The Met Office Academic Partnership involving the Universities of Exeter, Leeds, Oxford and Reading provides an additional mechanism for collaboration.
4. The general public and the media. SMURPHS will benefit the interested public by enabling clearer and more precise explanations of the hiatus and implications for long-term climate change. Several media articles used poor understanding of the hiatus to challenge the Government's emission reduction targets in 2013. In response the Science Media Centre (SMC) prepared a briefing note on the hiatus with significant contributions from Forster, Sutton, Allan and Hawkins. We will work with the SMC to update this briefing note at the end of the project, and will discuss holding a briefing meeting for interested journalists. Shine is very active in ongoing Royal Society efforts to explain climate change science to a wide audience via a number of activities, and expects to continue to be so during SMURPHS. Outputs from the project will be written up in a form that is accessible for the interested general public on Hawkins' climate-lab-book blog which also provides a mechanism for public engagement and feedback. Key findings will be communicated on Twitter. All PIs and Co-Is have press experience and engagement with the media will continue throughout the project.
Organisations
- University of Reading (Lead Research Organisation)
- Meteorological Office UK (Collaboration)
- NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE (Collaboration)
- PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY (Collaboration)
- National Centre for Earth Observation (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS (Collaboration)
- British Antarctic Survey (Collaboration)
Publications
Allan D
(2019)
Seasonal Changes in the North Atlantic Cold Anomaly: The Influence of Cold Surface Waters From Coastal Greenland and Warming Trends Associated With Variations in Subarctic Sea Ice Cover
in Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
Allan R
(2020)
Advances in understanding large-scale responses of the water cycle to climate change
in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Allan R
(2018)
Unrealistic Increases in Wind Speed Explain Reduced Eastern Pacific Heat Flux in Reanalyses
in Journal of Climate
Allan R
(2022)
Global Changes in Water Vapor 1979-2020
in Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
Allan R
(2017)
Decadal climate variability and the global energy balance
in Past Global Changes Magazine
Allan Richard P.
(2017)
Elusive origin of warming slowdown
in NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE
Allen M
(2016)
New use of global warming potentials to compare cumulative and short-lived climate pollutants
in Nature Climate Change
Allison L
(2020)
Observations of planetary heating since the 1980s from multiple independent datasets
in Environmental Research Communications
Description | 1) Work highlighted a larger than expected role of changes in the greenhouse effect of methane, low-level ozone and ozone-damaging CFCs, in explaining slower rates of surface warming during the early 2000s. 2) An important update to the radiative forcing of greenhouse gases was developed, indicating a potentially larger role for methane in future climate change. 3) We contributed to work exploiting global warming potential calculations to better compare cumulative and short-lived climate pollutants 4) An improved method to estimate and monitor energy flux into the sea surface was developed and exploited in understanding how ocean heat content depends on ocean currents and energy flows from the atmosphere. 5) An important international collaboration culminated in a high impact paper outlining the best definition of the pre-industrial reference period from which to estimate global surface temperature changes which is of importance in assessing mitigation targets as was demonstrated in a further high impact publication 6) A graphic depicting global warming with each month like the hour around a clock face, commonly referred to as the "climate spiral" was developed and widely used in social media, mainstream media and was viewed by over 1 billion people at the 2016 Olympic opening ceremony and the team member responsible was awarded an MBE for this and other contributions to climate communication 7) New calculations show heating from ozone pollution from 1850 to the 2000s that is 80% higher than previous estimations with improved representation of multi-decadal changes 8) Combining satellite data with models indicates that aerosol particles make clouds brighter as expected but do not substantially increase the amount of water which implies that some climate simulations may overestimate the cooling effect of these particles on climate. A large ensemble of model simulations with varying aerosol radiative forcings has been developed to investigate the impact of aerosol uncertainty on historical climate change. 9) Pioneering work has shown that by developing a more realistic future scenario including volcanic eruptions that climate variability on annual-to-decadal timescales is increased 10) Through advances in simulations and observations, work has improved agreement and understanding of how temperature high up in the atmosphere has changed and varied over the past 3-4 decades and indicates that deficiencies in radiative forcing as well as unpredictable ocean fluctuations can explain discrepancies in the early 21st century 11) The role of atmospheric absorption of sunlight by aerosols in determining dimming then brightening at the surface over Europe and China was discovered with implications for decadal changes in climate and the hydrological cycle 12) It was shown that state of the art CMIP6 climate simulations are able to capture but in some cases underestimate amplification of climate change response by low altitude clouds in the east Pacific during the 2015/16 El Nino suggesting that climate models may underestimate climate variability and change. |
Exploitation Route | Continued dissemination and continued collaboration to identify future projects to extend understanding of decadal climate variability and change. Many members of the SMURPHS team are contributing to the IPCC AR6 report in which project outcomes are making an impact. |
Sectors | Chemicals Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Education Energy Environment |
URL | http://www.smurphs.leeds.ac.uk/ |
Description | A climate spiral developed to depict global warming has been widely used across social media and mainstream media in communicating climate science (Co-I Hawkins). Co-Is Shine, Hawkins, Hegerl, Sutton and Gregory contributed to the Royal Society report "Climate updates: progress since the fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the IPCC": https://royalsociety.org/~/media/policy/Publications/2017/27-11-2017-Climate-change-updates-report.pdf The project findings contributing important evidence for the IPCC AR6 report to which team members contributed; this included contribution to the Summary for Policymakers that was instrumental at the COP26 meeting |
First Year Of Impact | 2016 |
Sector | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Environment,Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
Impact Types | Societal Policy & public services |
Description | Invited participant in the scoping meeting to plan the sixth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (May 2017, Addis Ababa) |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Impact | The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has played a critical role in advising the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the most recent outcome of which was the Paris Agreement which is the most serious attempt yet achieved to tackle climate change. |
URL | http://www.ipcc.ch |
Description | NERC National Capability Science Multi-Centre 1-year extension (FY 21/22): The North Atlantic Climate System Integrated Study (ACSIS) |
Amount | £1,961,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2021 |
End | 03/2022 |
Title | DEEP-C top of atmosphere and surface energy fluxes 1985-2016 |
Description | In order to study which mechanisms explain the reduced global surface warming rate since around 2000, and where the excess energy is due to rising greenhouse gas, the radiation fluxes (OLR, ASR and NET) at the top of atmosphere (TOA) prior to the CERES period are reconstructed using satellite observations, atmospheric reanalysis (ERA-Interim) and AMIP5 model simulations. The new approach using the mass-corrected atmospheric energy divergencies (transports) from ERA-Interim is employed to estimate the net surface energy fluxes. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Use of data in multiple publications. |
URL | http://researchdata.reading.ac.uk/111/ |
Title | Reconstructions of the radiation fluxes at the top of atmosphere and net surface energy flux: DEEP-C Version 5.0 |
Description | In order to study the energy flow in the climate system, the radiative fluxes (OLR: Outgoing Longwave Radiation, ASR: Absorbed Solar Radiation, NET: Net Radiative Flux) at the top of atmosphere (TOA) prior to the CERES (Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System) period have been reconstructed using satellite observations of CERES v4.1 and ERBS WFOV v3.0 (Earth Radiation Budget Experiment Satellite Wide Field Of View), atmospheric reanalysis (ERA5: the fifth generation ECMWF ReAnalysis) and AMIP6 (the sixth phase of the coupled model intercomparison project) model simulations. The new approach using the mass-corrected atmospheric energy divergencies (transports) and consistent enthalpy treatment of water substances is employed to estimate the net surface energy fluxes. This is version 5.0 of the DEEP-C dataset. CERES version 4.1 and ERBS WFOV version 3.0 are used. The TOA flux anomaly is constrained by WFOV anomaly in each 10 degree x 10 degree grid box. The atmospheric energy transport is based on the new enthalpy treatment of water substances described in Mayer et al. (2017), 'Toward consistent diagnostics of the coupled atmosphere and ocean energy budgets', Journal of Climate 30(22): 9225-9246. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0137.1. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | The dataset is developed from the DEEP-C, SMURPHS and NCEO DEWES projects and is being used in multiple scientific studies |
URL | https://researchdata.reading.ac.uk/id/eprint/347 |
Title | SMURPHS Large Ensemble |
Description | Ensemble of simulations with HadGEM3 for the historical period with a range of anthropogenic aerosol emissions |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Several collaborative papers |
Title | SMURPHS OHC dataset |
Description | Data produced by analysis of the SMURPHS ensemble model output, as described in Boland et al 2023 (https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JC018725). This data is required to reproduce the figures from this paper. See https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6418479 for: -notebooks to produce the figures from Boland et al 2023 using this data - see below for which tar balls are needed for which figure. -code to reproduce this data from the SMURPHS model output To reproduce the figures, you need the following directories/files: - Figure 1 & Table 2: ohc_tseries, pic_data, other_model_data - Figure 2: ohc_tseries, pic_data, other_model_data - Figure 3: ohc_trends - Figures 4, S2, S3: ohc_xy - Figures 5, S4-S7: ohc_yz - Figure 6: ohc_xy - Figure 7: ohc_yz, other_model_data - Figure S1: pic_data - Figure S8: amoc_tseries - Figure S9: SIE_SH.nc The data files loaded were created using the python scripts in https://github.com/emmomp/SMURPHS_OHC/code/ as follows: - ohc_tseries: ohc_by_basin_depth.py - pic_data: ohc_by_basin_depth_pic.py, ohc_pic_drift.py, ohc_xy_pic_drift.py, ohc_yz_pic_drift.py, ohc_xy_pic.py, ohc_yz_pic.py - ohc_trends: ohc_weightedtrends_obs.py, ohc_weightedtrends.py - ohc_xy: ohc_xy.py, ohc_xy_trends.py - ohc_yz: ohc_yz.py, ohc_yz_trends.py - amoc_tseries: calculate_AMOC.py - SIE_SH.nc : calc_SH_SIE.py For the SMURPHS ensemble, see Dittus et al. 2020 (https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL085806) |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/data_in/19281761 |
Description | Collaboration with Met Office Hadley Centre and Global Numerical Weather Prediction Model |
Organisation | Meteorological Office UK |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Ongoing collaboration on publications and model development in the area of the global energy and water cycles |
Collaborator Contribution | Met Office partners have provided climate and NWP model data, expertise and research outcomes. |
Impact | Multiple research outputs, advances in model development and policy-relevant advice |
Description | North Atlantic Climate System Integrated Study (ACSIS programme) |
Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | The North Atlantic Climate System Integrated Study (ACSIS programme) is a 5 year research programme led by NCAS (PI Rowan Sutton) and also involving: NOC, BAS, NCEO, PML, CPOM and the Met Office. |
Collaborator Contribution | Details at www.acsis.ac.uk and https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0266.1 |
Impact | https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0266.1 |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | North Atlantic Climate System Integrated Study (ACSIS programme) |
Organisation | Meteorological Office UK |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | The North Atlantic Climate System Integrated Study (ACSIS programme) is a 5 year research programme led by NCAS (PI Rowan Sutton) and also involving: NOC, BAS, NCEO, PML, CPOM and the Met Office. |
Collaborator Contribution | Details at www.acsis.ac.uk and https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0266.1 |
Impact | https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0266.1 |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | North Atlantic Climate System Integrated Study (ACSIS programme) |
Organisation | National Centre for Earth Observation |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | The North Atlantic Climate System Integrated Study (ACSIS programme) is a 5 year research programme led by NCAS (PI Rowan Sutton) and also involving: NOC, BAS, NCEO, PML, CPOM and the Met Office. |
Collaborator Contribution | Details at www.acsis.ac.uk and https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0266.1 |
Impact | https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0266.1 |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | North Atlantic Climate System Integrated Study (ACSIS programme) |
Organisation | National Oceanography Centre |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | The North Atlantic Climate System Integrated Study (ACSIS programme) is a 5 year research programme led by NCAS (PI Rowan Sutton) and also involving: NOC, BAS, NCEO, PML, CPOM and the Met Office. |
Collaborator Contribution | Details at www.acsis.ac.uk and https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0266.1 |
Impact | https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0266.1 |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | North Atlantic Climate System Integrated Study (ACSIS programme) |
Organisation | Plymouth Marine Laboratory |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | The North Atlantic Climate System Integrated Study (ACSIS programme) is a 5 year research programme led by NCAS (PI Rowan Sutton) and also involving: NOC, BAS, NCEO, PML, CPOM and the Met Office. |
Collaborator Contribution | Details at www.acsis.ac.uk and https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0266.1 |
Impact | https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0266.1 |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | University of Leeds (project partner) |
Organisation | University of Leeds |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Collaboration on project meetings, research and media activities. |
Collaborator Contribution | Collaboration on project meetings, research and media activities. |
Impact | Many since initial workshop at Chicheley Hall with ongoing policy-relevant outputs. |
Start Year | 2014 |
Description | 2016/04 - BLOG - Energy flows, rainfall patterns and climate |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Blog detailing paper deminstrating links between inter-hemispheric differences in the Earth's energy budget and rainfall pattern biases in climate models. Some further discussion suggested changing views of practitioners and students. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/weather-and-climate-at-reading/2016/energy-flows-rainfall-patterns-and-cl... |
Description | 2016/04 - MEDIA Science Media Centre comment on recent work comparing hydroclimate proxy data with simulations |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Science Media Centre comment on recent work comparing hydroclimate proxy data with simulations. This did not generate much interest as far as I know. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-northern-hemisphere-hydroclimate-variability/ |
Description | 2016/04 OUTREACH Weather and Climate: What is happening? talk to Institute of Agricultural Managment Thames Valley Branch - dinner seminar |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Discussed changes in the weather and climate in relation to agriculture and engaged in discussion with professional practitioners. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | 2016/05 - MEDIA Contributed to Carbon Brief comment on Nature Climate Change paper exploring the climate response if all known fossil fuel reserves were burnt |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Contributed to Carbon Brief comment on Nature Climate Change paper exploring the climate response if all known fossil fuel reserves were burnt. Impacts unknown. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.carbonbrief.org/arctic-could-warm-by-17c-if-all-known-fossil-fuels-are-burned-study-says |
Description | 2016/07 - OUTREACH Study Environmental Physics or Meteorology at the University of Reading, Moving on Day, Farnborough 6th Form College, 5th July 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Discussed the importance of Earth observation and mathematical modelling in solving Environmental problems and the benefits of studying Environmental Physics. The school reported interest from prospective students. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/TALKS/AllanRP_Farnborough2016.pdf |
Description | 2016/08 - eFM Korea interview about record high global temperatures |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Interview about ongoing heatwave in South Korea with eFM. Gained more Asian twitter followers. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.tbs.seoul.kr/efm/Primetime/ |
Description | 2016/11 - Contributed to University of Reading Climate Change MOOC |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Videos, activities and articles were updated and participation on online discussion ensured learning across a variety of expertise. Many participants reported a change in their own views. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/our-changing-climate |
Description | 201610 - I commented at the Science Media Centre on a PNAS paper suggesting a smaller anthropogenic aerosol cooling effect |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | I commented at the Science Media Centre on a PNAS paper suggesting a smaller anthropogenic aerosol cooling effect and this sparked some debate with professional practitioners. This caused my own views to be questioned but stimulated advanced understanding. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-new-study-on-climate-forcing-from-aerosols/ |
Description | 201610 - BBC World interview about the recent deal to phase out potent HFC greenhouse gases |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | I provided informed perspective to BBC World news channel about the recent deal to phase out potent HFC greenhouse gases |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/MISC/BBCW101516100319.mp4 |
Description | 201610 - Current changes in Earth's surface and top of atmosphere energy balance since 1985, ECMWF workshop on Earth's Radiation Budget, Reading, 18-21st October 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | DEEP-C work was disseminated to an international audience which encouraged debate |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/TALKS/AllanRP_ERB_ECMWF_2016.pdf |
Description | 201611 - contribution to a Channel 4 news piece on record warmth in 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Discussion of the record warmth of 2016 for a general TV audience with some follow-up on twitter and by email. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://www.channel4.com/news/2016-set-to-be-warmest-on-record |
Description | 2017/03 MEDIA: Response to comment by new head of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) playing down the role of carbon dioxide in driving climate change. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Response to comment by new head of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) playing down the role of carbon dioxide in driving climate change. This was posted as a press release and picked up by news outlets (e.g. Yahoo, Irish News): http://www.reading.ac.uk/news-and-events/releases/PR713843.aspx http://www.irishnews.com/magazine/2017/03/10/news/here-s-what-happened-when-trum p-s-environmental-chief-said-co2-is-not-a-main-cause-of-global-warming-961123/ https://uk.news.yahoo.com/heres-happened-trumps-environmental-chief-170955431.ht ml |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.reading.ac.uk/news-and-events/releases/PR713843.aspx |
Description | 201701 - Climate Science from a Climate Scientist, THE JOHN HALL VENICE COURSE 2017, National Gallery, London, January 25th 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | A talk "Climate Science from a Climate Scientist" was presented to a group of gap year students engaged in an enrichment course. The cohort were extremely bright and asked a number of very informed questions and many reported changes in views. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/TALKS/ClimateChange_NationalGallery_AllanRP.pdf |
Description | 201701 - Comments on warmest year globally, curious research on "mild" weather and paper suggesting similar temperatures at last interglacial 125,000 years ago despite 6-9m higher sea level than today (Independent, SMC) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Comments were made to various media outlets on the research indicating 2016 was the warmest year on record globally, some curious research investigating changes in "mild" weather and on a paper suggesting similar temperatures at last interglacial 125,000 years ago despite 6-9m higher sea level than today (Independent, SMC) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/sea-level-rise-global-warming-climate-change-9-metres-study... |
Description | 2019/01 School visit to discuss The Science of Climate Change |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | A presentation and practical demonstrations on the Science of Climate Change to Year 7/8 and teachers. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2019 |
URL | http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/TALKS/AllanRP2019Wandsworth.pdf |
Description | Appointed to Transdisciplinary Advisory Board for European Joint Programming Initiative "Connecting Climate Knowledge for Europe" (JPI Climate) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | The Transdisciplinary Advisory Board (TAB) consists of national and international members from academia and from relevant stakeholder groups. It advises the Governing Board on specific issues upon request. This overall Advisory Board is an important instrument to involve relevant stakeholder groups. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://jpi-climate.eu/governance/#transdisciplinary-advisory-board |
Description | Article in The Conversation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Article for wide audience on implications of IPCC 1.5 degree C report Over 22,000 readers reported, republished in many (more than 20) other outlets, including in USA, Australia and India, 122 tweets and 741 facebook shares Led to several requests for media involvement. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://theconversation.com/ipcc-1-5-report-heres-what-the-climate-science-says-104592 |
Description | BLOG 20/05 - blog on how reduced air pollution, as experienced during the COVID19 lockdowns, can increase sunlight reaching the surface, influencing weather and climate |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Blog on how reduced air pollution, as experienced during the COVID19 lockdowns, can increase sunlight reaching the surface and influencing weather and climate. This led to media interest and an article in the Guardian and Newsweek |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://blogs.reading.ac.uk/weather-and-climate-at-reading/2020/do-cuts-in-particle-pollution-accele... |
Description | BLOG 20/09 - contribution to Physics World article asking: Has the COVID-19 lockdown changed Earth's climate? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Contribution to Physics World article asking: Has the COVID-19 lockdown changed Earth's climate with readers expressing change in opinions |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://physicsworld.com/a/has-the-covid-19-lockdown-changed-earths-climate/ |
Description | BLOG 20/11 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Research published by project partners (Allison et al. 2020) was disseminated to a wider audience in a Met Office blob which led to interest on social media and requests for more information. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/news/2020/how-to-measure-the-heating-of-the-planet |
Description | BLOG 2017/06 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Produced press release and blog relating to Nature paper showing less complex cloud-aerosol climate effects than previously thought. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/2017/volcano-reveals/ |
Description | BLOG 2018/09 Blog to publicise research on Southern Ocean biases in climate simulations |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Blog outlining new research in which we traced large and long-standing biases in computer simulations of climate, affecting the tempestuous Southern Ocean, to errors in cloud that emerge rapidly within the atmospheric models |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://blogs.reading.ac.uk/weather-and-climate-at-reading/2018/cloud-climate-and-the-roaring-40s/ |
Description | BLOG 2022/10 Contributed to NOAA climate.gov blog on Where is the heat going during La Nina? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | I contributed to a NOAA climate.gov blog and discussion on "Where is the heat going during La Nina?" to uncover the science behind the recent unusually lengthy La Nina climate event that picked up on recent research including my own and disseminated this informatiopn widely |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/where-does-global-warming-go-during-la-ni%C3%B1a-0 |
Description | Chair, Met Office Hadley Centre Science Review Group |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | The Met Office Hadley Centre (MOHC) Science Review Group (SRG) brings together leading scientists from UK and international academia to carry out an independent review of the climate research carried out by the Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Programme (MOHCCP) to advise its government customers on the quality, robustness and relevance of our science outputs. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
URL | https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/approach/how-met-office-science-is-reviewed |
Description | Citizen's Climate Assembly |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | The UK Government formed a Citizen's Climate Assembly to discuss the priorities for reaching 'net-zero'. I gave evidence to the Assembly. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.climateassembly.uk |
Description | Climate Lab Book blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Editor of Climate Lab Book blog which receives around 4000 visits per month Figures from blog posts have appeared in Mail on Sunday, Economist magazine, US Senate hearing, BBC News at 6, BBC News at 10 & Newsnight, Guardian & numerous online publications |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017 |
URL | http://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk |
Description | Climate change is spinning up the global energy and water cycles. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Departmental blog discussing climate change and the global energy and water cycles including the use of satellite data in testing computer simulations. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/weather-and-climate-at-reading/2019/climate-change-is-spinning-up-the-glo... |
Description | Climate spiral |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | In May 2016 I created a 'climate spiral', showing global temperature changes since 1850. This went 'viral', being shared millions of times on facebook and seen by millions on twitter. It featured in several online and print media outlets. Later in the year, a version of the spiral was used during the opening ceremony of the Rio Olympics, being seen by over 1 billion people. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017 |
URL | http://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/spirals |
Description | Co-author of document aimed at policymakers and general public |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Co-authorship of Royal Society document "Keeping global warming to 1.5oC" aimed at policymakers and the general public which helped summarise IPCC report on same subject in UK context https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/publications/2018/keeping-global-warming-to-1-5-c/ |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/publications/2018/keeping-global-warming-to-1-5-c/ |
Description | Ed Hawkins' Climate Spiral |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A novel way of depicting global surface temperature change (and other climate metrics) by year (colour) and month (with months like hours on a clock) was developed, disseminated on social media and broadcast at the Olympic Opening Ceremony and across the world media, even by then president Barack Obama (no use as yet by President Trump). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/spirals/ |
Description | Financial Reporting for Climate - in conversation with Deloitte and HSBC | February 10 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Setting out the climate science context for business event focusing on Financial Reporting for Climate - in conversation with Deloitte and HSBC . This sparked questions and requests for further information. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://deloitte.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_o-H51f6ZRKqM2Jm7wE6tJw |
Description | General media activities |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Media activity. Full list at URL below. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017 |
URL | http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~ed/home/outreach.html |
Description | Good COP bad COP blog discussing COP26 outcomes |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Contributed to blog, involving discussion and requests for more infomation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://mylittlegreenwardrobe.com/blogs/news/cop26-good-cop-bad-cop |
Description | Guardian Live Panel Discussion "The climate emergency: Your questions answered" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A Question Time style debate about the climate emergency. This involved a brief introduction and answering questions from the audience of around 260 from the general public. This sparked discussion and questions afterwards and the possibility of new collaborations. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://membership.theguardian.com/event/the-climate-emergency-your-questions-answered-85482577691 |
Description | MEDIA 19/07 - Interview with New Scientist about amplifying cloud climate feedback study (also reported in Earth.com) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Interview with New Scientist about a study highlighting a possible new amplifying cloud climate feedback associated with cirrus outflow (also reported in Earth.com) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.newscientist.com/article/2209661-climate-change-may-thin-high-altitude-clouds-and-trigge... |
Description | MEDIA 19/07 Interview by Talk Radio on if London's climate will become like Barcelona by 2050 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Interview by Talk Radio on a new study purporting that London's climate will become like Barcelona by 2050 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://mms.tveyes.com/Transcript.asp?StationID=13555&DateTime=7%2F13%2F2019+3%3A03%3A34+AM&Term=Uni... |
Description | MEDIA 19/07 Interview with LBC discussing the July 2019 heatwave also reported in The Telegraph following Science Media Centre quote. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Interview with LBC discussing the July 2019 heatwave in the context of climate change that was also reported in The Telegraph following liaison through the Science Media Centre. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-uk-heatwave/ |
Description | MEDIA 19/08 - Is July 2019 the hottest month globally ever recorded? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Science Media Centre quote on the exceptional July 2019 global temperatures in the context of climate change that was picked up by Evening Standard and many regional news outlets |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/july-set-to-be-jointwarmest-month-on-record-and-may-be-the-hot... |
Description | MEDIA 19/09 - University of Reading press release ahead of the New York UN Climate Action Summit |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | University of Reading press release ahead of the New York UN Climate Action Summit |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | http://www.reading.ac.uk/news-and-events/releases/PR809880.aspx |
Description | MEDIA 19/10 Participating in a Science media communication workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Participating in a science media communications workshop focusing on climate change |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/working-with-us/for-scientists/intro/ |
Description | MEDIA 19/12 - BBC World Service interview on the outcome of COP25 climate meeting on climate policy |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | BBC World Service interview on the outcome of COP25 climate meeting on climate policy which sparked discussion. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://mms.tveyes.com/Transcript.asp?StationID=7195&DateTime=12%2F15%2F2019+1%3A12%3A47+PM&Term=Red... |
Description | MEDIA 19/12 - comments on WMO state of the climate to Science Media Centre/Associated Press |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Science Media Centre comments on WMO Provisional Statement on State of Climate in 2019 (e.g. Associated Press) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-the-provisional-statement-on-the-state-of-the-... |
Description | MEDIA 20/01 - France 24 debate about Australian bushfires and climate change |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | France 24 debate about Australian bushfires and climate change that sparked questions and debate from panel members and audience |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.france24.com/en/20200114-why-is-australia-bruning-bushfires-spark-calls-for-urgent-overh... |
Description | MEDIA 20/03 - press release on postponement of Glasgow COP26 climate meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Press release commenting on postponement of Glasgow COP26 climate meeting |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | http://www.reading.ac.uk/news-and-events/releases/PR838689.aspx |
Description | MEDIA 20/07 - Comments on State of UK climate report |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Comments on State of UK climate report with further interest by media including Independent article |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-the-6th-state-of-the-uk-climate-report/ |
Description | MEDIA 20/07 - Comments on climate mitigation in Science Media Centre press release |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Comments on climate mitigation in Science Media Centre press release which generated media interest including quotes in the Wall Street Journal |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-study-looking-at-when-global-temperatures-migh... |
Description | MEDIA 20/08 - Comment in Independent article on wheat yields |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Comment in Independent article on wheat yields with requests for further participation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-crisis-extreme-weather-uk-temperature-heat-farmers... |
Description | MEDIA 20/08 - comments on State of the climate 2019 publication |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Comments on State of the climate 2019 publication in press release. Some further related requests resulted. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-state-of-the-climate-in-2019-report/ |
Description | MEDIA 2017/04 - comments on research highlighting statistical pitfalls of comparing global warming trend |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Provided quote to Science Media Centre to help informm the public about new research highlighting statistical pitfalls of comparing global warming trend |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-climate-hiatus-statistics/ |
Description | MEDIA 2017/11 - November 7th 2017: Another warm year pump primed extremes: comments in BBC & Times articles |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Comments on how warming from greenhouse gases caused extremes to be worse than they otherwise would have been. These comments were used in BBC & Times articles. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-41859288 |
Description | MEDIA 2017/12 - December 6th 2017: comments on study indicating low climate senisitivity is less likely |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Comments on Brown and Caldeira study indicating low climate senisitivity is less likely. This was used by the Science Media Centre and distributed to national media. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-research-suggesting-greater-future-global-warmi... |
Description | MEDIA 2018/01 - January 10th 2018: Hudson weather interview on how possible future solar minimum will not make much of a dent in human-caused global warming |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | January 10th 2018: Hudson weather interview on how possible future solar minimum will not make much of a dent in human-caused global warming. This was undertaken to dispel the myth that future changes in the sun will drive climate change and that the "Little Ice Age" was not a real ice age and than many factors including volcanoes explain the cooler global period, not just lower sunspots in the Maunder minimum. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05rtd0d#play |
Description | MEDIA 2018/01 - January 18th 2018: Multiple interviews about climate change and weather extremes |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | January 18th 2018: Multiple media interviews on climate and weather. Comment son new study improving confidence in climate predictions with quotes in the Guardian and on the BBC in relation to record non-El Nino warmth in 2017. Also interviews on TalkRadio and a Sputnik News interview on the world economic forum report highlighting the risk of extreme weather. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jan/18/worst-case-global-warming-scenarios-not-credible-says-study http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-42736397 https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201801191060871115-extreme-weather-global-threat http://www.reading.ac.uk/news-and-events/releases/PR754614.asp |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201801191060871115-extreme-weather-global-threat |
Description | MEDIA 2021 - BBC Weather World interview on extreme precipitation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Interview about how climate change affects extreme precipitation viewed by a wide audience, and sparked some comments on twitter |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000v0kr |
Description | MEDIA 2021 - Comments on North American heatwave - Science Media Centre |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | 5th July 2021 - Comments on North American heatwave - Science Media Centre - requests for more information |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-the-north-american-heatwave/ |
Description | MEDIA 2021 - Guardian article on COVID19 and pollution |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Highlighting the effects of COVID19 on air pollution and climate to large general public audience which sparked comments and debate and changes of opinion |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/13/drop-in-pollution-may-bring-hotter-weather-and-heavier... |
Description | MEDIA 2021 - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 6th assessment report on the physical science basis released (as an author I also contributed to the SMC briefing, BBC 5Live, BBC World Service, Guardian, Al Jazeera/Inside Story, Washington Post, ITV, etc...) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | 9th August 2021 - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 6th assessment report on the physical science basis released (as an author I contributed to the SMC briefing, BBC 5Live, BBC World Service, Guardian, Al Jazeera/Inside Story, Washington Post, ITV, etc...) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/ipcc-ar6-a-qa-with-scientists-from-working-group-1/ |
Description | MEDIA 2021 - Longer dry spells and later wet seasons projected for tropical regions (research in J. HydroMet. and press release; see also SA Business Insider) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | 9th September 2021 - Longer dry spells and later wet seasons projected for tropical regions (research in J. HydroMet. and press release; see also SA Business Insider) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.businessinsider.co.za/climate-change-will-bring-longer-and-drier-dry-seasons-in-sa-new-s... |
Description | MEDIA 2021 - Outcome of the COP26 climate meeting Science Media Centre and articles in Guardian and Daily Mirror |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | 14th November 2021 - Outcome of the COP26 climate meeting SMC comment and articles in Guardian and Daily Mirror that sparked interest from general public |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/30/is-this-our-last-chance-to-act-on-the-climate-cr... |
Description | MEDIA 2021 - SMC quote on Met Office Met Office predictions the planet may cross 1.5oC warming threshold in one of the next 5 years (also interviewed on BBC World News and News 24) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | 27th May 2021 - SMC quote on Met Office Met Office predictions the planet may cross 1.5oC warming threshold in one of the next 5 years (also interviewd on BBC World News and News 24) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NqNC3UV0qM |
Description | MEDIA 2021 - State of the UK Climate report (Science Media Centre, Sky News, Guardian) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | 29th July 2021 - State of the UK Climate report (Science Media Centre, Sky News, Guardian) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/29/extreme-weather-will-be-the-norm-and-uk-is-not-prepare... |
Description | MEDIA 2021 - comment on research showing a faster increase in precipitation and transition from snow to rain in the Arctic (Science Media Centre, Guardian) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | 1st December 2021 - comment on research showing a faster increase in precipitation and transition from snow to rain in the Arctic (SMC, Guardian) that sparked interest |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/30/rain-replace-snow-arctic-climate-heats-study |
Description | MEDIA 2021 - comments on State of the Climate WMO report picked up by news outlets |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Comments to Science Media Centre picked up by Guardian and Independent which sparked debate and comments online |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/19/relentless-climate-crisis-intensified-in-2020-sa... |
Description | MEDIA 2021 - interview with BBC Scotland about WMO report on weather-related disasters since the 1970s and link to climate change (also Al Jazeera Inside Story) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | 1st September 2021 - interview with BBC Scotland about WMO report on weather-related disasters since the 1970s and link to climate change (also Al Jazeera Inside Story) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2021/9/3/could-extreme-weather-events-lead-to-more-ac... |
Description | MEDIA 2021: Royal Meteorological Sociaty video on How and why the climate is changing to showcase the new RMetS book Weather - a force of nature |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | 1st November 2021: RMetS video on How and why the climate is changing to showcase the new RMetS book Weather - a force of nature: resulted in requests for more information |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN61vGxDs2I |
Description | MEDIA 2022 - Comments on Storm Eunice and climate change to Science Media Centre and multiple news outlets (ITV news, Guardian, inews, Yahoo news, CTV, NNN, LBC radio) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Comments that led to requests for further information and discussion with interviewers from multiple news agencies about effects of climate change on storms and how they form with requests for more information and engagement on twitter |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://twitter.com/i/status/1494712766980046848 |
Description | MEDIA 2022 - France24 interview about climate change |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Live interview about climate change and extreme weather with France 24 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.france24.com/en/video/20220216-could-nuclear-power-be-key-in-transitioning-to-a-fully-re... |
Description | MEDIA 2022 - SMC comment on Copernicus report of ongoing global warming highlighting impacts in 2021 and surging methane concentrations |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | 10th January 2022 - Science Media Centre comment on Copernicus report of ongoing global warming highlighting impacts in 2021 and surging methane concentrations that led to requests for information |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-data-on-global-temperature-and-co2-methane/ |
Description | MEDIA 2022/04 Comments to media on Amazon tipping points paper |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Media comments on new research in to Amazon tipping points that was published by the Science Media Centre and reported in the media such as CNN. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-research-on-amazon-tipping-points/ |
Description | MEDIA 2022/05 Science Media Centre comments on WMO State of the Global Climate 2021 report |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Comments on WMO State of the Global Climate 2021 report that were published by Science Media Centre and reported in the media e.g. Irish Times |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-wmo-state-of-the-climate-2021/ |
Description | MEDIA 2022/07 media comments on heatwave in the UK and western/southern Europe |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Comments on heatwave in the UK and western/southern Europe that were published by the Science MEdia Centre andreported widely (e.g. ABC radio news, Yahoo UK, Guardian, Times, i-news, Mail, CNBC, BBC News) 11th July 2022 - |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-hot-weather-and-climate-change/ |
Description | MEDIA 2022/08 Media comments on the developing drought in the UK and on the impact of climate change on the intensity of droughts. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Scientific comments on the developing drought in the UK and on the impact of climate change on the intensity of droughts, 9th Aug 2022 that was reported by the Science MEdia Centre and University press office and quoted by ITV News (online), Independent, Daily Mail, Evening Standard, Aol., The National News, Yahoo!, Western Mail (in print), Oxford Mail, Daily Echo, The National, Belfast Telegraph, The Bolton News, The Standard, News and Star, The Press, Glasgow Times, News Break Sky News online, Express, Daily Mail, Yahoo!, Heart Radio online, Smooth Radio online, Capital FM Radio online, MSN, The Washington Times, News Amed, Daily Star Post, The One World News, Eminetra, Arab News 24 and more than a hundred other outlets |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-the-anticipated-uk-drought/ |
Description | MEDIA 2022/10 Article on worsening floods & droughts with every bit of global warming for the Scotsman and research.reading blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | I worte an articvle on worsening floods & droughts with every bit of global warming for the Scotsman newspaper that was also published as a research.reading blog |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/climate-change-every-bit-of-global-warming-is-makin... |
Description | MEDIA 2022/11 Comments on recent climate reports ahead of COP27 climate meeting that was reported in the media |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Comments on recent climate reports ahead of COP27 climate meeting that was reported in the media7 such as a Guardian article on rapidly emerging climate impacts ahead of COP27 and by the Science Media Centre on Copernicus Climate report showing rapid warming in Europe |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-state-of-the-climate-in-europe-report-publishe... |
Description | MEDIA 2022/12 Quoted in New Scientist article on drought and Europe's energy system |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Quoted in New Scientist article on drought and Europe's energy system 14th December 2022 - |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25634175-800-extreme-drought-in-2022-exposed-fragility-of-eur... |
Description | MEDIA 2023/01 Comments on Met Office story on record UK temperatures in 2022 and Met Office forecast of renewed warming in 2023 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Scientific comments on on Met Office report on record UK temperatures in 2022 and forecast of renewed warming in 2023 that was reported by the BBC and Guardian |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-2022-being-uks-hottest-year-on-record/ |
Description | MEDIA 2023/01 INterview by CNN on deterioration of existing, uncleared forest in the Amazon |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Interview by CNN about a review on the deterioration of existing, uncleared forest in the Amazon and its causes 28th January 2023 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/27/world/amazon-rainforest-damage-climate-intl/index.html |
Description | MEDIA 2024/02 Discussion with reporter about dying 2024 El Nino published in Daily Mirror and elswhere |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Discussed the dying El Nino of 2024 witha reporter on the phone and this was used extensively in an article published in the Daily Mirror and reposted elsewhere |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://www.mirror.co.uk/travel/news/climate-experts-warn-brits-el-32143792 |
Description | MEDIA2018/10 Multiple media interviews weather and climate (Jan-Sept 2018) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Multiple media interviews on heatwave (Sky News), hothouse Earth paper (BBC News) and Hurricane Florence and super Typhoon Mangkhut (BBC News, Daily Express). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014,2018 |
URL | https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1017792/Hurricane-Florence-climate-change-atlantic-storms-are-t... |
Description | MEDIA: February 21st 2020: quoted in Telegraph article on role of Atmospheric Rivers in recent UK flooding |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Discussion with Telegraph about article on role of Atmospheric Rivers in recent UK flooding. The author changed his opinion and improved his knowledge thereby informing the public better. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/02/21/atmospheric-rivers-atlantic-blamed-torrential-rain |
Description | MEdia 2021 - nova RADIO INTERVIEW |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | 30th April 2021 - interview will NOVA radio on new government emissions cut targets and the recent UN report on the state of the climate that sparked debate |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/MISC/WillHardyApr-30-2021.mp3 |
Description | Member of Editorial Board for 10 New Insights in Climate Science 2022, presented at COP27 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | The 10 New Insights in Climate Science series is an annual synthesis highlighting essential advances in climate change research, from natural and social sciences, with high policy relevance. The report has been launched every year since 2017 at the climate COP, with participation of the UNFCCC Executive Secretary. This joint initiative of Future Earth, The Earth League, and The World Climate Research Programme, is a collective effort to support the diffusion of the most relevant and up-to-date climate change science to policymakers, negotiators, and the general public. See: https://10insightsclimate.science/ |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://10insightsclimate.science/ |
Description | OUTREACH 2017/05 Weather and Climate Science for Society, University of Reading Virtual Open Day. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Generate interest in Meteorology and further visits to University. Around 20 students interacted in a virtual tour and presentation on climate. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/TALKS/AllanRPVirtualOpenDay18.pdf |
Description | OUTREACH 2017/11 Was there a pause in global warming? Results from the DEEP-C project, Discussion group, St. Anne's College, University of Oxford, 1st November 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Was there a pause in global warming? Results from the DEEP-C (and SMURPHS/NCEO work) projects were debated at a discussion group, St. Anne's College, University of Oxford, 1st November 2017 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/TALKS/AllanRP_DEEP_C-Oxford.pdf |
Description | OUTREACH 2018/01 - The Science of Climate Change, Year 9 Climate Event, Wednesday 17th January, University of Reading |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | An interactive lecture on The Science of Climate Change was presented at a Year 9 Climate Event, Wednesday 17th January, University of Reading. Infrared thermometers were used by students to demonstrate the greenhouse effect and students also participated in demonstrations of feedback loops. I discussed weather extremes including intense rainfall. I received excellent feedback from the organizers and students, many of who enjoyed my section the most out of their days climate activities. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/TALKS/AllanRP1701Climate-Outreach.pdf |
Description | OUTREACH 2018/06 A lecture and demonstration of the physics of climate change at Bohunt Wokingham school, 7th June 2018. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | The Science of Climate Change lecture and demonstration of the physics of climate change at Bohunt Wokingham school, 7th June 2018. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/TALKS/AllanRP2018BohuntClimate.pdf |
Description | OUTREACH 2021 - Causes of climate change talk and interview for GCSE Geography students, Gillotts School, Henley June 2021 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | An online interview and talk on the "Causes of climate change" designed to link with GCSE Geography curriculum and delivered to Gillotts School, Henley |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://drive.google.com/file/d/13Z9LfK9QYk51cydmbOglwmrzqL-wipV1/view |
Description | OUTREACH 2021 - Science and Stormont: talk on the latest climate science to Royal Society of Chemistry Stormont policy event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | talk on the latest climate science to Royal Society of Chemistry Stormont policy event that involved debate and discussion |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.rsc.org/events/detail/47838/science-and-stormont-2021 |
Description | OUTREACH 2021 - Talk and active demonstrations on science of climate change to Reading Girls school October 2021 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Talk and demonstrations on science of climate change to Reading Girls school October 2021. Students actively participated in experiments and demonstrations and were highly engaged, asking insightful questions |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://spark.adobe.com/page/FkXrCfDr9Xida/ |
Description | OUTREACH 2021 - climate change talk as part of Reading COP26 event November 2021 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Talk on the latest science from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment report to local government and interest groups as part of the Reading COP26 events |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/19699459.climate-rally-taking-place-reading-today-cop26/ |
Description | OUTREACH 2021 - online talk to general public on the latest climate science as part of Reading Climate Festival COP26 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Online talk to general public on the latest climate science from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as part of the University of Reading contribution to the Reading Climate Festival leading up to COP26 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://readingcan.org.uk/ |
Description | OUTREACH 2022/04 - Science of climate change talk and demonstrations at Marist school |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | The Marist School, April 28 2022 Lunchtime discussion for ages 11-18 and interactive session for Year 9/10 on Climate Change: Causes, Consequenses and Solutions |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | OUTREACH 2022/04 University Court, Climate change panel business leaders |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Climate change panel for members of the University Court including business leaders, the mayors of Wokingham and Reading and heads of local schools |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | OUTREACH 2022/07 STEM Virtual Careers Fair, 4 July 2022 [Climate Ambassador Outreach] |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Contributed to STEM Virtual Careers Fair, 4 July 2022 in role as STEM Climate Ambassador |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.stem.org.uk/news-and-views/news/Life-After-School-Get-ready-virtual-careers-fair |
Description | OUTREACH 2022/11 keynote talk on climate change and Earth Observation to Belgian contributions to Earth Sciences in a Changing World study day |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Keynote talk on Observing Earth to Monitor, Understand and Predict Climate Change at the Belgian contributions to Earth Sciences in a Changing World study day, Brussels, 4th November 2022. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://bncgg.oma.be/EN/studyday20221104.php |
Description | OUTREACH 2022/12 keynote talk to business practitioners at Reading Climate Fayre |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Keynote talk on The Physical Science Basis for Climate Change: Causes & Consequences to business leaders and practitioners at Reading Climate Fayre, Green Park, Reading, 22nd November 2022. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.ethicalreading.org.uk/reading-climate-fayre/ |
Description | OUTREACH 2023/03 - kenote talk on climate science and the IPCC for GRIDSERVE business conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | A keynote talk on the science of climate change, sumarising the IPCC findings, the scale of the problem and what is needed to solve the diminishing carbon budget. This teed up the CEO of GRIDSERVE who motivated business prtactitioners, mainly in the energy sector, to strive towards net zero goals. This had a national reach though there was some international participation remotely. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | OUTREACH 2024/02 Climate Change - An Introduction to Climate Change. MASSOLIT course |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Short course on climate change - Allan, R. (2024, February 20). Climate Change - An Introduction to Climate Change [Video]. MASSOLIT. https://massolit.io/courses/climate-change |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://massolit.io/courses/climate-change |
Description | OUTREACH Ask Me Anything on Climate panel and twitter schools event, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Ask Me Anything on Climate panel and twitter schools event, 13th March 2020 Department of Meteorology, University of Reading. This generated many questions in person and virtually through twitter and students reported a change in their opinions. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://twitter.com/UniRdg_Met/status/1238405936638820352?s=20 |
Description | Oxfordshire Pension Fund Climate Change Workshop, November 8th 2019. Climate change and what to expect. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Discussion and workshop aiming to guide Oxfordshire county council on its policy regarding investment/divestment from fossil fuel in its pensions. Impact on pension bodies and stakeholders on the damage of climate change that helped to change opinions and practice. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | PODCAST 2021 - 4th October 2021: University of Reading podcast Climate Change: Providing the Science for Politicians |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | 4th October 2021: University of Reading podcast Climate Change: Providing the Science for Politicians that sparked interest from prospective students |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://open.spotify.com/episode/2kSAYrwD7uJ06aVsZBq0qz?si=2upd7wfOT1CE-IVFyR72Gg&dl_branch=1 |
Description | PODCAST 2022/07 Facebook Live on IPCC and climate change |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Participated in Facebook Live interview by Full Circle CI on climate change, July 20th 2022 with discussion of the IPCC and climate change |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.facebook.com/groups/1029801524424055/permalink/1282848572452681 |
Description | PODCAST 2022/12 Interview on the science behind human-caused climate change and net zero as part of the Electric Evolution podcast series |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Interview on the science behind human-caused climate change and net zero as part of the Electric Evolution podcast series 7th December 2022 - |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYDZm-oHQr4 |
Description | PRESS RELEASE on March 5th 2020: Meteorology Department research examining observations and simulations shows how cutting particle pollution can increase sunlight at the surface and temporarily speed up climate change |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | PRESS RELEASE on Meteorology Department research examining observations and simulations shows how cutting particle pollution can increase sunlight at the surface and temporarily speed up climate change. This resulted in further requests for information and led to media articles (Mail Online) and a further article aimed at the general public including schools in Physics Today. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | http://www.reading.ac.uk/news-and-events/releases/PR836792.aspx |
Description | Panel member at COP26 session on the future of climate modelling |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | The session on the future of climate modelling was held in the Science Pavillion in COP26 in Glasgow and also live streamed worldwide. I contributed my perspective and contributed to the Q&A. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/climate/cop/science-pavilion |
Description | The Science of Climate Change, Portcullis Trust (Richmond-upon-Thames), 6th March 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Talk and discussion on the science of climate change and discussion about policy options. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/TALKS/ClimateChange_Richmond_AllanRP.pdf |
Description | |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | My personal twitter account has over 13900 followers Additional publications and authorship on book chapter. Increased interest from media and resulting appearances in print articles and online. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017 |
URL | http://twitter.com/ed_hawkins |
Description | Virtual Global Citizens Conference talk on The Science of Climate Change (Virtual) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | A talk on the science of climate change to students across disciplines at a Virtual Citizens Conference hosted at Liverpool St. John Moores UNiversity. This sparked questions and altered understanding of the climate change issue. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/Conferences/Virtual-Global-Citizens-Conference |
Description | Warming stripes |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Design of a set of graphics - the warming stripes - which communicate changes in temperature over time in a simple, visually appealing way. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019,2020,2021 |
URL | http://www.showyourstripes.info |