Geoff Jenkins (climatologist)
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Geoffrey Jenkins is a climatologist and former head of climate change
prediction at the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research
, part of the Met Office
.
In response to why he believes that human activity has caused the recent rise in temperatures he responded:
Climate change
Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions or the distribution of events around that average...
prediction at the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research
Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research
The Met Office Hadley Centre for Climate Change — named in honour of George Hadley — is part of, and based at the headquarters of the Met Office in Exeter...
, part of the Met Office
Met Office
The Met Office , is the United Kingdom's national weather service, and a trading fund of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills...
.
Career
Jenkins is a physics graduate from Southampton university; PhD in atmospheric physics. Thirty years at the Met Office.In response to why he believes that human activity has caused the recent rise in temperatures he responded:
Feeding in the different agents that cause climate change into our models – like greenhouse gases, output from the Sun, volcanoes - we’ve looked at the patterns of change they cause across the surface of the Earth and through the atmosphere. We compare them to what’s actually been observed and find the best match between computer simulations and the observations. This has indicated to us that over the past 30 or 40 years that most of the warming has been due to human activities.