The climate is fundamentally important for life on earth, but it’s changing rapidly. The effects could have a profound impact on our day-to-day lives and those of future generations.
Over the last 30 years climate change has come under increasing scrutiny from the world’s scientific community, becoming the sole focus for 1000s of scientists worldwide, including many based at the Met Office.
Despite this improved scientific understanding, almost daily we all hear some extreme views on the severe impacts of climate change, and others arguing that climate change isn’t happening at all.
We think people deserve a clearer understanding of what’s going on with their climate by looking at what climate science and the scientific evidence is telling us.
The My Climate and Me team are not Climate Scientists, but we’ve got direct access to over 150 Climate Scientists here at the Met Office, many of whom are world leaders in their fields. Our role is to make the latest climate science and scientific understanding more accessible to you.
We’re here to take your questions and concerns about climate change straight to the scientists themselves, and get you some answers.
If you’ve got a climate question, we’d love to hear it. Ask a question now.
It’s *your* 17-year standstill.
It’s *your* wonderful computer models which are running wa-a-y ahead of the real temperatures.
It’s at least one of *your* buddies who has been lying (quote from J. Annan) about climate sensitivity to spread alarmism.
You explain it.
We’ll wait.
We don’t even need climate science to tell us what the effect of changing the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is going to do to the climate.
It’s all in the geological record – crystal clear.
http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/climatechange
Hello – I suggest getting your website consistent. On this page, you say “The My Climate and Me team are not Climate Scientists…”
But on http://www.myclimateandme.com/the-team/ you say
“The My Climate & Me Team is made up of:
Richard Betts – Leads Climate Impacts area, specialising in ecosystem-hydrology-climate interactions.
Peter Stott – leads the Climate Monitoring and Attribution team.
Kate Willett – climate scientist working on high resolution climate data with a focus on surface humidity and thermal comfort.
I’m sure these people will be quite upset to learn that they are not Climate Scientists.
Hi Martin
The “Team” page has been updated to make it clear that Peter, Kate and myself are advisors to the MC&M team.
Hi Richard, Noted.