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‘Critical’ Global Stocktake counting down to help keep Paris promises

Posted on 30 March, 2023 by Met Office Press Office

The current decade is a critical decade for climate action. What we do now will be a deciding factor in whether we can constrain global temperature rise to 1.5°C or below. The urgency is clear, but what keeps the ambition … Continue reading →

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Overshoot likely needed to keep to 1.5C rise by end of century

Posted on 5 April, 2022 by Met Office Press Office

Could the world still be on track to keep global temperature rise to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels by the end of this century?  Yes, with ambition it could be. But, increasingly, this almost certainly involves some form of ‘overshoot’ where … Continue reading →

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Met Office science at the heart of climate assessments

Posted on 17 August, 2021 by Met Office Press Office

The Met Office Hadley Centre – which celebrated its 30th anniversary last year – has a long and proud history of working and supporting the IPCC. Indeed, one of the foremost scientists who propelled the IPCC, serving as co-chair and … Continue reading →

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Three decades of Met Office Hadley Centre science, and counting..

Posted on 26 May, 2020 by Met Office Press Office

This week marks the 30th Anniversary of the opening of the Met Office Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on 25 May, 1990. Professor Albert Klein Tank, director of the Met Office Hadley Centre, … Continue reading →

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An expert’s view on unusually warm Arctic temperatures

Posted on 25 November, 2016 by Met Office Press Office

This year has seen some exceptionally low extents of Arctic sea ice as well as periods of much higher than usual temperatures in the region. Ed Blockley manages the Met Office Polar Climate group, whose responsibilities include monitoring the increases and … Continue reading →

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The 2013 global mean temperature

Posted on 29 January, 2014 by Met Office Press Office

In December 2013 we published an estimate of the global mean temperature up to the end of October 2013, based on an average of the three main global temperature datasets – Met Office and University of East Anglia (HadCRUT4), NOAA … Continue reading →

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Should climate models have predicted the pause?

Posted on 27 September, 2013 by Met Office Press Office

Media coverage today of the launch of the 5th Assessment Report of the IPCC has again said that global warming is “unequivocal” and that the pause in warming over the past 15 years is too short to reflect long-term trends. Over recent … Continue reading →

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Met Office in the Mail on Sunday

Posted on 15 September, 2013 by Met Office Press Office

An article appears in the Mail on Sunday today focusing on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) forthcoming Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) which it bills this as the ‘world’s most authoritative climate study’. It’s fair to say that AR5 … Continue reading →

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