Climate scientist, University of Exeter and Met Office. Expert Adviser to the Adaptation Committee of the Climate Change Committee. Lead author IPCC AR4, AR5 & AR6. Live music lover, supporter of grassroots venues. Cycles a lot, rock climbs occasionally. .. more
Climate scientist, University of Exeter and Met Office. Expert Adviser to the Adaptation Committee of the Climate Change Committee. Lead author IPCC AR4, AR5 & AR6. Live music lover, supporter of grassroots venues. Cycles a lot, rock climbs occasionally.
Richard Arthur Betts is Head of the Climate Impacts strategic area at the Met Office Hadley Centre in Exeter, United Kingdom. He is also chair in Climate Impacts at the University of Exeter and the Principal Investigator of the EU FP7 project HELIX. He was a lead author for Working Group I and a contributing author for Working Group II of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. He was a lead author for Working Group II of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report. He is an editor for the International Journal of Global Warming, the Journal of Environmental Investing, and for Earth System Dynamics. He was appointed MBE in the 2019 Birthday Honours. .. more
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AR4 - WG1 Radiative Forcing (focussing on land use)
AR5 - WG2 Terrestrial Ecosystems
AR6 - WG2 Water
AR7 - WG1 Global Projections
Always fantastic to work with international colleagues and learn from them
Reposted by Christian Odendahl, Will Jennings, Richard Betts , and 16 more Christian Odendahl, Will Jennings, Richard Betts, Christopher Wright, Tim Bale, Michael A. Clemens, Monika Schnitzer, Leigh Sparks, Paul E. Johnson, Peter Holmes, Iikka Korhonen, Robert Wolfe, Michael H. Whitworth, Anne Norton, Graham Dutfield, Nils Zurawski, Catriona Seth, Andrew Duff, Nathan P. Kalmoe
tomorrow (Saturday)
Global Carbon Budget
AmazonFACE
Science Panel for the Amazon
Science Panel for Borneo
Science Panel for the Congo Basin
Reposted by Peter Thorne, Richard Betts
The animation very much reminds me of an angry beast pulling on its chains; and they are tearing loose...
AmazonFACE will use Free Air CO2 Enrichment ("FACE") methods to study the effect of elevated CO2 on the forest
We'll study the impacts on carbon, water and nutrient cycles and biodiversity, and use this to improve models
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaq0...
The mountains of Jamaica could receive 1 metre of rain, resulting in life-threatening flash flooding and landslides
Destructive winds and storm surges are also likely
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The mountains of Jamaica could receive 1 metre of rain, resulting in life-threatening flash flooding and landslides
Destructive winds and storm surges are also likely
Today at Exeter Crown Court he was found guilty of dangerous driving and banned for 12 months
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
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Also the rate of CO2 rise is now above the IPCC scenarios that limit global warming to 1.5C
www.carbonbrief.org/met-office-a...
www.eenews.net/articles/cli...
Reposted by Martin McKee, Dorothy Bishop, Simon L. Lewis , and 20 more Martin McKee, Dorothy Bishop, Simon L. Lewis, Stephan Lewandowsky, Sari Kovats, Richard Betts, Scott L. Greer, Steve Peers, Tim Bale, Elizabeth Stokoe, Geert Van Calster, Peter Campbell, Rebecca Sear, Alison Phipps, Ben Worthy, Max Nathan, Margot C. Finn, Graham Dutfield, Mark Priestley, Pauline Stafford, Vaughan S. Roberts, Élisabeth Vallet, Andrew Perchard
The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
Reposted by Richard Betts, Martina Angela Caretta
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Always fun to fly above the treetops in a canopy crane 🙂
www.plant-ecology.info/kroof-kranzb...
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Reposted by Hans Henrik Bruun, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Richard Betts
📅 Start date: no later than December 1st.
Reposted by Richard Betts
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#ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Reposted by Richard Betts
The Northeast, South Central, and Pacific Islands will be left without actionable science on drought, floods, wildfire, sea level rise and other hazards.