Peter A. Stott

For British civil engineer, see Peter Frank Stott.

Peter A. Stott MBE is a climate scientist who leads the Climate Monitoring and Attribution team of the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research at the Met Office in Exeter, UK. He is an expert on anthropogenic and natural causes of climate change.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]}

Peter A. Stott MBE
Alma mater	Durham University University of Cambridge Imperial College London
Known for	climate change research
Awards	Oceanic and Atmospheric Research Outstanding Scientific Paper Award (2008) Climate Science Communications Award (2018)
Scientific career
Institutions	Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research University of Edinburgh
Thesis	Effects of physical and chemical processes in storms on reactor accident consequences (1989)
Website	peterstott.org

He was a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group I report, chapter 9, for the AR4 released in 2007 and is an editor of the Journal of Climate.

Stott has an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Durham University^[10] and completed Part III of the Mathematical Tripos at the University of Cambridge. He was awarded a PhD by Imperial College London for work on atmospheric modelling of the environmental consequences of the Chernobyl disaster.^[11] After his PhD he carried out postdoctoral research at the University of Edinburgh on stratospheric ozone depletion.

In 2021, he published the book "Hot Air: the Inside Story of the Battle Against Climate Change Denial", a thorough account of the decades-long battle to deny or downplay the existence of the climate crisis.^[12] He was shortlisted for the 2022 RSL Christopher Bland Prize for the book.^[13]

References

1. Wu, P.; Wood, R.; Stott, P. (2004). "Does the recent freshening trend in the North Atlantic indicate a weakening thermohaline circulation?". Geophysical Research Letters. 31 (2): L02301. Bibcode:2004GeoRL..31.2301W. doi:10.1029/2003GL018584. S2CID 134082106.
2. Stott, P. A.; Jones, G. S.; Mitchell, J. F. B. (2003). "Do Models Underestimate the Solar Contribution to Recent Climate Change?". Journal of Climate. 16 (24): 4079. Bibcode:2003JCli...16.4079S. doi:10.1175/1520-0442(2003)016<4079:DMUTSC>2.0.CO;2.
3. Stott, P. A.; Tett, S. F.; Jones, G. S.; Allen, M. R.; Mitchell, J. F.; Jenkins, G. J. (2000). "External Control of 20th Century Temperature by Natural and Anthropogenic Forcings". Science. 290 (5499): 2133–2137. Bibcode:2000Sci...290.2133S. doi:10.1126/science.290.5499.2133. PMID 11118145.
4. Stott, P. A.; Kettleborough, J. A. (2002). "Origins and estimates of uncertainty in predictions of twenty-first century temperature rise". Nature. 416 (6882): 723–726. Bibcode:2002Natur.416..723S. doi:10.1038/416723a. PMID 11961551. S2CID 4326593.
5. Stott, P. A. (2003). "Attribution of regional-scale temperature changes to anthropogenic and natural causes". Geophysical Research Letters. 30 (14): 1728. Bibcode:2003GeoRL..30.1728S. doi:10.1029/2003GL017324.
6. Christidis, N.; Stott, P. A.; Brown, S.; Hegerl, G. C.; Caesar, J. (2005). "Detection of changes in temperature extremes during the second half of the 20th century" (PDF). Geophysical Research Letters. 32 (20): L20716. Bibcode:2005GeoRL..3220716C. doi:10.1029/2005GL023885. hdl:20.500.11820/3a797ab6-27f5-4653-bdb4-50852b658d0e. S2CID 17106830.
7. Stott, P. A.; Mitchell, J. F. B.; Allen, M. R.; Delworth, T. L.; Gregory, J. M.; Meehl, G. A.; Santer, B. D. (2006). "Observational Constraints on Past Attributable Warming and Predictions of Future Global Warming". Journal of Climate. 19 (13): 3055. Bibcode:2006JCli...19.3055S. doi:10.1175/JCLI3802.1.
8. Stott, P. A.; Sutton, R. T.; Smith, D. M. (2008). "Detection and attribution of Atlantic salinity changes". Geophysical Research Letters. 35 (21): L21702. Bibcode:2008GeoRL..3521702S. doi:10.1029/2008GL035874.
9. Palmer, M. D.; Good, S. A.; Haines, K.; Rayner, N. A.; Stott, P. A. (2009). "A new perspective on warming of the global oceans". Geophysical Research Letters. 36 (20): L20709. Bibcode:2009GeoRL..3620709P. doi:10.1029/2009GL039491.
10. "Gazette, 1982/83". Durham University Archive. p. 81. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
11. Stott, Peter (1989). Effects of physical and chemical processes in storms on reactor accident consequences (PhD thesis). Imperial College London. hdl:10044/1/47676.
12. Ahuja, Anjana (2021). "The tide of misinformation". The New Statesman. 150 (5643): 48–50. ISSN 1364-7431.
13. Cristi, A. A. (16 May 2022). "2022 Royal Society of Literature Christopher Bland Prize Shortlist Announced". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved 1 June 2022.

External links

• Dr Peter Stott, Met Office