Menu
See also
- Twitter: @ed_hawkins
- E-mail: e.hawkins@reading.ac.uk
- Telephone:
0118 378 7991 - Office: Harry Pitt 172
- Address:
Dept. of Meteorology,
University of Reading,
READING. RG6 6BB - Links: Weather Rescue
Old Weather
Climate Lab Book
OceanTerra
Go! Pesto
Media & public engagement
2018 onwards: news reports collated by google
30/11/17 - Media coverage of European Weather Rescue project: BBC
23/11/17 - Map of temperature anomalies used in Ecowatch article
09/17-11/17 - Media coverage on Ben Nevis weather rescue project: BBC, Scientific American, Guardian, Forbes
17/08/17 - Interviewed for BBC News on Arctic shipping routes, including sea ice spiral
16/08/17 - Interviews for 'Science in Action' and 'Inside Science' on BBC Radio4
20/06/17 - Interviewed for BBC News at Ten on heatwaves
17/06/17 - Give a talk on climate change at the 'Climate Symphony' event as part of the Two Degrees Festival in London
07/06/17 - Helped write an article for the Conversation on defining pre-industrial
22/05/17 - Paper in Nature Climate Change on emergence of temperatures discussed by Carbon Brief
11/05/17 - Climate spiral birthday discussed by Climate Central
08/05/17 - Quoted by Carbon Brief and Le Figaro (in French) when discussing role of Pacific variations in when 1.5C target may be reached
19/03/17 - Tweeted graphic used by Sydney Morning Herald in article on coral bleaching
17/03/17 - Quoted by Reuters and Climate News Network on Arctic sea ice study
07/02/17 - Article in Forbes discusses my ideas on how anyone can help climate scientists
26/01/16 - Global temperature spiral tweeted by Senator Bernie Sanders and by GoldenGateNPS, earning >60k retweets
25/01/16 - Paper on temperature changes since pre-industrial times highlighted on BBC News, ClimateCentral and Guardian
13/01/16 - Global temperature spiral used by BBC News at 6 and News at 10
08/01/16 - National Geographic highlights Arctic changes, using my Arctic spiral graphic and my PhD student's (Nat Melia) study on future of Arctic shipping routes
20/11/16 - Live radio interview for RRR in Melbourne
14/11/16 - Short video interview clip used on BBC News at 1
04/11/16 - Climate spiral used on BBC News at 6 and News at 10
07/10/16 - Blogpost about Arctic sea ice picked up by Telegraph & Mail Online
30/09/16 - Carbon dioxide spiral highlighted on Scientific American
30/08/16 - 167 tiny maps, highlighted by Mail Online, Wired, Gizmodo and Scientific American
07/08/16 - The climate spiral appeared at the Olympics opening ceremony!
06/08/16 - Quoted by Guardian about record global temperatures
05/07/16 - Paper on reconciling global temperature trends discussed in Guardian
17/05/16 - Spiral temperature graphic used on Channel 4 News and translated into several languages
12/05/16 - Spiral temperature graphic goes viral, covered by: Climate Central, Washington Post, Guardian, USA Today, Mashable, Daily Mail, Business Green, Gizmodo, Washington Post (again), Reporting Climate Science, Vox, Climate Home, CityLab, PRI, Esquire, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Huffington Post, India Today amongst others
14/03/16 - Quoted in Guardian article and Independent article on global temperatures
24/02/16 - Quoted in Washington Post on slowdown in global temperatures
05/02/16 - Article in Planet Earth on erratic Arctic sea ice
01/02/16 - Quoted by Carbon Brief in article on surface temperatures
14/12/15 - Public talk on climate change at Institute of Physics
01/12/15 - Live Sky News interview from Paris COP21
01/12/15 - Filmed for C4 News piece on climate impacts
27/11/15 - Quoted in Financial Times article on communicating climate change
27/11/15 - Quoted in Press Association piece on history of climate change
25/11/15 - Quoted in Independent and BBC on 2015 record temperatures
09/11/15 - Quoted in Guardian on 2015 record temperatures
21/10/15 - Public talk on climate change at High Wycombe 'Skeptics in the Pub'
23/09/15 - Wrote Conversation article and quoted in Mail Online article on emergence of climate extremes
06/09/15 - Quoted in Mail Online about Emma Thompson's comments on global temperatures
03/09/15 - Filmed for C4 News piece on El Nino and global temperatures
31/07/15 - Quoted in Guardian blog post and by CarbonBrief on Cowtan et al paper, of which I was a coauthor
29/07/15 - Quoted by New Scientist in article on increasing global temperatures
21/07/15 - Quoted in Carbon Brief article on the Climate Communique issued by a set of professional bodies and learned societies
20/07/15 - Quoted by Daily Mail and in Carbon Brief in article on Arctic sea ice
05/06/15 - Quoted in BBC article, Daily Mail and Carbon Brief blog about global temperatures
07/05/15 - Quoted in Guardian article about carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere
17/03/15 - Participated in mock COP event for Berkshire schools at Bradfield College
02/02/15 - Live interview for BBC Radio Berkshire on global temperature records
29/01/15 - Article in The Conversation on Arctic sea ice variability, also discussed by Reporting Climate Science
19/01/15 - Quoted in Daily Mail article on global temperature records
03/12/14 - Pre-recorded segment for BBC TV News and live interview for BBC Radio Berkshire about UK temperature records. Also discussed in Guardian & Daily Mail
06/11/14 - Blog article highlighted by Reporting Climate Science
15/10/14 - Gave public lecture at Royal Meteorological Society monthly meeting on the history of climate science
03/10/14 - Attended a climate scientist & sceptic dinner party, which was reported in Guardian
27/09/14 - Gave public talk on climate change to Ascot Environmental Group
30/08/14 - Quoted in Daily Mail article about Arctic sea-ice decline
15/07/14 - Gave oral evidence to House of Lords inquiry on the Arctic (audio, transcript)
03/07/14 - Our Nature Comment discussed by Carbon Brief (with videos)
13/04/14 - Quoted in Wall Street Journal on IPCC report
25/03/14 - Live interview on Radio 5live discussing UK seasonal weather
10/03/14 - Quoted in Guardian on climate sensitvity (and also in The Times)
07/03/14 - Quoted in BBC article on climate sensitivity
20/11/13 - Quoted and figure used in article on Carbon Brief about global temperatures
09/11/13 - Participated in panel discussion on the IPCC report at the London Climate Forum
03/11/13 - Quoted in article in Mail on Sunday on pause
30/09/13 - Wrote an article on the history of climate science for The Conversation blog
27/09/13 - Live on 5Live (mp3) about the IPCC report, with Tamsin Edwards
27/09/13 - Appeared live on Sky News and BBC News Channel about the IPCC report:
27/09/13 - Quoted in Daily Mail and Guardian blog discussing the IPCC report and temperature hiatus
24/09/13 - Appeared on BBC Newsnight discussing the slowdown in global temperatures
14/09/13 - Interviewed on BBC Radio Berkshire by Henry Kelly about the Arctic (mp3)
09/09/13 - Quoted in Mail on Sunday, The Guardian & The Times on Arctic sea ice
18/07/13 - Figure from Climate Lab Book blog discussed in US Senate Committee for Environment & Public Works hearing (at around 3h27m)
10/07/13 - Quoted in Nature article on decadal prediction
22/04/13 - Study on Guy Callendar highlighted in The Guardian (press release)
03/13 - Figure from Climate Lab Book blog discussed in Mail on Sunday (and again here), The Economist, The Australian & Carbon Brief blog and by the UK Climate Change Committee
13/01/13 - Quoted in Guardian article discussing our study of French maize yield (press release)
10/01/13 - Quoted in Carbon Brief blog, The Times (no link available) and The Australian on the Met Office decadal forecasts
03/12/12 - Quoted in a climate change article in the Metro
22/11/12 - Lecture at annual meeting of a private equity company
27/03/12 - The University published a YouTube video of me talking about 'not if, but when'
01/02/12 - Article in Significance magazine - 'Our evolving climate' (or PDF)
12/12/11 - Press release on when climate change could affect the tropics
17/11/11 - Gave talk at Reading Skeptics in the Pub event
24/10/11 - Press release on when global temperatures might reach 2C. Followed up at The Independent.
19/08/09 - Press release on the potential to improve climate predictions. Followed up at Nature Reports Climate Change and realclimate.org.
09/05/08 - New Scientist article on the predictability of rapid changes in the overturning circulation