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Logo of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research (from tyndall.ac.uk) The Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research is an organisation based in the United Kingdom that brings together scientists, economists, engineers and social scientists to "research, assess and communicate from a distinct trans-disciplinary perspective, the options to mitigate, and the necessities to adapt to current ...
The first director of the unit was Professor Hubert Lamb, who had previously led research into climatic variation at the Met Office. [6] He was then known as the "ice man" for his prediction of global cooling and a coming ice age but, following the UK's exceptionally hot summer of 1976, he switched to predicting a more imminent global warming. [6]
Hubert Horace Lamb (22 September 1913 in Bedford – 28 June 1997 in Holt, Norfolk) was an English climatologist who founded the Climatic Research Unit in 1972 in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia.
Kevin Anderson, Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and is an adviser to the British Government on climate change. ... Hubert Lamb (1913–1997 ...
The German émigré novelist W. G. Sebald taught at the School of Literature and Creative Writing and founded the British Centre for Literary Translation. [124] John Innes Centre. The Climatic Research Unit, founded in 1972 by Hubert Lamb in the School of Environmental Sciences, [125] has been an early centre of work for climate change research ...
The conference was sponsored by the University of Oxford, the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, and the Met Office Hadley Centre. Video podcasts of all oral presentations are posted on a University of Oxford website; [4] however, to find videos by presenter names the above cited program must first be consulted to find the presentation ...
A "schematic diagram" of global temperature variations over the last thousand years [23] has been traced to a graph based loosely on Lamb's 1965 paper, nominally representing central England, modified by Lamb in 1982. [17] Mike Hulme describes this schematic diagram as "Lamb's sketch on the back of an envelope", a "rather dodgy bit of hand ...
In October 2000 he founded the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, a distributed virtual network organisation headquartered at UEA, which he directed until July 2007. [4] Hulme served on the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from 1995 to 2001. [ 5 ]