Climate change is already affecting us all, regardless of where we live, through changing risks of extreme weather events. This lecture took a break from global climate policy to talk about the links between climate and weather, chaos theory and the practical tools available to quantify changing risks.
There is a lot we still don’t know – and a lot we could know, if only governments and the insurance industry were willing to pay for better climate risk information.
Professor Myles Allen
- Frank Jackson Foundation Professor of the Environment (2022-)
Professor Myles Allen took his first degree in Physics and Philosophy, followed by a doctorate in Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, both at the University of Oxford. He has worked at Oxford for most of his career, with early stints at MIT and the UN Environment Programme in Kenya, and is currently Director of the Oxford Net Zero initiative.
He has contributed extensively to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), including as Coordinating Lead Author for the 2018 IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C. He has published extensively on how human and natural influences on climate contribute to observed climate change and extreme weather risk, and the implications for adaptation and mitigation policy.
He was awarded the Appleton Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics in 2010, and in 2022 a CBE for services to climate change attribution, prediction and net zero. In 2023, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myles_Allen
https://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/people/professor-myles-allen/
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