The costs of heatwaves, droughts, floods and fires continue to mount as global temperatures rise, yet efforts to halt global heating remain stalled. Professor Stott discussed the mounting evidence linking human-induced greenhouse gas emissions to the rapid increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather, recounted his experiences with climate change denial, and proposed a way forward built on new, more positive narratives of a sustainable future.
Speaker
Peter Stott is Science Fellow in Attribution at the Met Office and Professor of Detection and Attribution at the University of Exeter. He led the team that in 2000 provided key demonstrations that human activities were to blame for global warming, and the first study to link an individual weather event, the 2003 European heatwave, to human-induced climate change.