Ed Hawkins

Prof. Ed Hawkins MBE is a climate scientist in the National Centre for Atmospheric Science at the University of Reading. He was a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 6th Assessment Report published in 2021, and is the GB-lead in the Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water.

He was awarded the Royal Society’s Kavli Medal in 2018, the Royal Meteorological Society’s Hugh Robert Mill Award in 2022, and was appointed MBE in 2019 for services to climate science & science communication.

His research examines how and why the climate has changed since the industrial revolution, and how it may change over the coming decades. He also leads Weather Rescue – a citizen science initiative involving thousands of volunteers – which is recovering millions of lost Victorian-era weather observations from hand-written archives and turning them into invaluable digital data to better understand historical extreme weather events.

Ed also actively engages with a variety of audiences about climate change, especially on social media and using novel graphical visualisations such as the Warming Stripes.
https://climatelabbook.substack.com
https://www.edhawkins.org
https://www.ShowYourStripes.info
https://ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visuals