Myles Allen

Myles Robert Allen CBE FRS FInstP (born 11 August 1965)^[1] is an English climate scientist. He is Professor of Geosystem Science in the University of Oxford's School of Geography and the Environment, and head of the Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics Department.^[2][3]

Myles Allen CBE FRS FInstP
Born	Myles Robert Allen (1965-08-11) 11 August 1965 (age 59)[1] Farnham, Surrey, England
Education	British School in the Netherlands[1]
Alma mater	University of Oxford (MA, DPhil)
Known for	Climateprediction.net
Spouse	Irene Tracey ​ (m. 1994)​ [1]
Awards	Edward Appleton Medal and Prize (2010)
Scientific career
Fields	Climate change
Institutions	United Nations Environment Programme Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Oxford
Thesis	Interactions between the atmosphere and oceans on time scales of weeks to years (1992)
Website	www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/people/myles-allen

Education

Allen was educated at the British School in the Netherlands^[1] and the University of Oxford where he was awarded a Master of Arts degree in Physics and Philosophy in 1987^[1] followed by a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1992.^[4] He was a student of St. John's College, Oxford.^[1]

Career

As well as his position as Professor of Geosystem science at Oxford, he is the Principal Investigator of the distributed computing project Climateprediction.net (which makes use of computing resources provided voluntarily by the general public), and was principally responsible for starting this project.^[5][6] He is the Director of the Oxford Net Zero initiative^[7] and a Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford.^[8]

Allen has worked at the Energy Unit of the United Nations Environment Programme, the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.^[2] He contributed to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as a Lead Author of the Chapter on detection of change and attribution of causes,^[9] and was a Review Editor for the chapter on predictions of global climate change for the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report and a co-author of the IPCC October 8, 2018 Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C.^[10][11] His research^[12] focuses on the attribution of recent climate change and assessing what these changes mean for global climate simulations of the future.^{[13][14][15][16][17]}

Allen also provided the technical expertise for the game Fate of the World, which is "a PC strategy game that simulates the real social and environmental impact of global climate change over the next 200 years".^[18] In 2015, he mentioned that carbon capture and storage (CCS) should be made mandatory.^[19]

Awards and honours

In 2010, Allen was awarded the Edward Appleton Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics for "his important contributions to the detection and attribution of human influence on climate and quantifying uncertainty in climate predictions".^[20] Allen was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to climate change attribution and prediction and net-zero.^[21] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2023.^[22]

Personal life

Allen married Irene Tracey in 1994 and has three children.^[1]

References

1. Anon (2023). "Allen, Prof. Myles Robert". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U254480. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
2. "Dr Myles Allen - University of Oxford". Archived from the original on 30 December 2009. Retrieved 12 January 2010. Myles Allen profile at the University of Oxford
3. The Guardian articles by Allen: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change must keep its eye on the ball; Generals must give us their exit strategy for climate change
4. Allen, Myles Robert (1992). Interactions between the atmosphere and oceans on time scales of weeks to years. ox.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 61666921. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.335863.
5. Stainforth, D. A.; Aina, T.; Christensen, C.; Collins, M.; Faull, N.; Frame, D. J.; Kettleborough, J. A.; Knight, S.; Martin, A.; Murphy, J. M.; Piani, C.; Sexton, D.; Smith, L. A.; Spicer, R. A.; Thorpe, A. J.; Allen, M. R. (2005). "Uncertainty in predictions of the climate response to rising levels of greenhouse gases" (PDF). Nature. 433 (7024): 403–406. Bibcode:2005Natur.433..403S. doi:10.1038/nature03301. PMID 15674288. S2CID 2547937. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 September 2005.
6. Piani, C.; Frame, D. J.; Stainforth, D. A.; Allen, M. R. (2005). "Constraints on climate change from a multi-thousand member ensemble of simulations" (PDF). Geophysical Research Letters. 32 (23): L23825. Bibcode:2005GeoRL..3223825P. doi:10.1029/2005GL024452. S2CID 56227360. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 February 2012.
7. "Home". Net Zero Climate. Retrieved 25 October 2022.
8. "Professor Myles Allen". School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford. Retrieved 30 May 2012.
9. Mitchell, J.F.B.; Karoly, D.J.; Hegerl, G.C.; Zwiers, F.W.; Allen, M.R.; Marengo, J. (2001). "Chapter 12. Detection of Climate Change and Attribution of Causes". IPCC Third Assessment Report. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Archived from the original on 23 January 2009. Retrieved 10 February 2009.
10. Summary for Policymakers (PDF), Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), nd, retrieved 8 October 2018, "IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty
11. Allen, Myles; Dube, Opha Pauline; Solecki, William (7 October 2018). Chapter 1: Framing and Context. Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C (Report). Incheon, Republic of Korea: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Retrieved 7 October 2018.
12. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=myles+allen Myles Allen in Google Scholar
13. Allen, M. R.; Ingram, W. J. (2002). "Constraints on future changes in climate and the hydrologic cycle". Nature. 419 (6903): 224–232. Bibcode:2002Natur.419..224A. doi:10.1038/nature01092. PMID 12226677. S2CID 916557.
14. Stott, P. A.; Stone, D. A.; Allen, M. R. (2004). "Human contribution to the European heatwave of 2003". Nature. 432 (7017): 610–614. Bibcode:2004Natur.432..610S. doi:10.1038/nature03089. PMID 15577907. S2CID 13882658.
15. Tett, S. F. B.; Stott, P. A.; Allen, M. R.; Ingram, W. J.; Mitchell, J. F. B. (1999). "Causes of twentieth-century temperature change near the Earth's surface". Nature. 399 (6736): 569–572. Bibcode:1999Natur.399..569T. doi:10.1038/21164. S2CID 4431997.
16. Forest, C. E.; Stone, P. H.; Sokolov, A. P.; Allen, M. R.; Webster, M. D. (2002). "Quantifying Uncertainties in Climate System Properties with the Use of Recent Climate Observations". Science. 295 (5552): 113–117. Bibcode:2002Sci...295..113F. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.297.1145. doi:10.1126/science.1064419. PMID 11778044. S2CID 5322736.
17. Allen, M. R.; Stott, P. A.; Mitchell, J. F. B.; Schnur, R.; Delworth, T. L. (2000). "Quantifying the uncertainty in forecasts of anthropogenic climate change". Nature. 407 (6804): 617–620. Bibcode:2000Natur.407..617A. doi:10.1038/35036559. PMID 11034207. S2CID 4426713.
18. "About Fate of the World". fateoftheworld.net/about. 4 March 2011. Archived from the original on 4 March 2011.
19. "Fossil fuel companies 'should be made to invest in carbon capture and storage'". The Guardian. 2 July 2015.
20. "Appleton medal recipients". Institute of Physics. p. 1. Retrieved 26 August 2010.
21. "No. 63571". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 2022. p. N8.
22. "Myles Allen". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 26 May 2023.