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2018 onwards: news reports collated by google

30/11/17 - Media coverage of European Weather Rescue project: BBC

23/11/17 - Map of temperature anomalies used in Ecowatch article

09/17-11/17 - Media coverage on Ben Nevis weather rescue project: BBC, Scientific American, Guardian, Forbes

17/08/17 - Interviewed for BBC News on Arctic shipping routes, including sea ice spiral

16/08/17 - Interviews for 'Science in Action' and 'Inside Science' on BBC Radio4

20/06/17 - Interviewed for BBC News at Ten on heatwaves

17/06/17 - Give a talk on climate change at the 'Climate Symphony' event as part of the Two Degrees Festival in London

07/06/17 - Helped write an article for the Conversation on defining pre-industrial

22/05/17 - Paper in Nature Climate Change on emergence of temperatures discussed by Carbon Brief

11/05/17 - Climate spiral birthday discussed by Climate Central

08/05/17 - Quoted by Carbon Brief and Le Figaro (in French) when discussing role of Pacific variations in when 1.5C target may be reached

19/03/17 - Tweeted graphic used by Sydney Morning Herald in article on coral bleaching

17/03/17 - Quoted by Reuters and Climate News Network on Arctic sea ice study

07/02/17 - Article in Forbes discusses my ideas on how anyone can help climate scientists

26/01/16 - Global temperature spiral tweeted by Senator Bernie Sanders and by GoldenGateNPS, earning >60k retweets

25/01/16 - Paper on temperature changes since pre-industrial times highlighted on BBC News, ClimateCentral and Guardian

13/01/16 - Global temperature spiral used by BBC News at 6 and News at 10

08/01/16 - National Geographic highlights Arctic changes, using my Arctic spiral graphic and my PhD student's (Nat Melia) study on future of Arctic shipping routes

20/11/16 - Live radio interview for RRR in Melbourne

14/11/16 - Short video interview clip used on BBC News at 1

04/11/16 - Climate spiral used on BBC News at 6 and News at 10

07/10/16 - Blogpost about Arctic sea ice picked up by Telegraph & Mail Online

30/09/16 - Carbon dioxide spiral highlighted on Scientific American

30/08/16 - 167 tiny maps, highlighted by Mail Online, Wired, Gizmodo and Scientific American

07/08/16 - The climate spiral appeared at the Olympics opening ceremony!

06/08/16 - Quoted by Guardian about record global temperatures

05/07/16 - Paper on reconciling global temperature trends discussed in Guardian

17/05/16 - Spiral temperature graphic used on Channel 4 News and translated into several languages

12/05/16 - Spiral temperature graphic goes viral, covered by: Climate Central, Washington Post, Guardian, USA Today, Mashable, Daily Mail, Business Green, Gizmodo, Washington Post (again), Reporting Climate Science, Vox, Climate Home, CityLab, PRI, Esquire, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Huffington Post, India Today amongst others

14/03/16 - Quoted in Guardian article and Independent article on global temperatures

24/02/16 - Quoted in Washington Post on slowdown in global temperatures

05/02/16 - Article in Planet Earth on erratic Arctic sea ice

01/02/16 - Quoted by Carbon Brief in article on surface temperatures

14/12/15 - Public talk on climate change at Institute of Physics

01/12/15 - Live Sky News interview from Paris COP21

01/12/15 - Filmed for C4 News piece on climate impacts

27/11/15 - Quoted in Financial Times article on communicating climate change

27/11/15 - Quoted in Press Association piece on history of climate change

25/11/15 - Quoted in Independent and BBC on 2015 record temperatures

09/11/15 - Quoted in Guardian on 2015 record temperatures

21/10/15 - Public talk on climate change at High Wycombe 'Skeptics in the Pub'

23/09/15 - Wrote Conversation article and quoted in Mail Online article on emergence of climate extremes

06/09/15 - Quoted in Mail Online about Emma Thompson's comments on global temperatures

03/09/15 - Filmed for C4 News piece on El Nino and global temperatures

31/07/15 - Quoted in Guardian blog post and by CarbonBrief on Cowtan et al paper, of which I was a coauthor

29/07/15 - Quoted by New Scientist in article on increasing global temperatures

21/07/15 - Quoted in Carbon Brief article on the Climate Communique issued by a set of professional bodies and learned societies

20/07/15 - Quoted by Daily Mail and in Carbon Brief in article on Arctic sea ice

05/06/15 - Quoted in BBC article, Daily Mail and Carbon Brief blog about global temperatures

07/05/15 - Quoted in Guardian article about carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere

17/03/15 - Participated in mock COP event for Berkshire schools at Bradfield College

02/02/15 - Live interview for BBC Radio Berkshire on global temperature records

29/01/15 - Article in The Conversation on Arctic sea ice variability, also discussed by Reporting Climate Science

19/01/15 - Quoted in Daily Mail article on global temperature records

03/12/14 - Pre-recorded segment for BBC TV News and live interview for BBC Radio Berkshire about UK temperature records. Also discussed in Guardian & Daily Mail

06/11/14 - Blog article highlighted by Reporting Climate Science

15/10/14 - Gave public lecture at Royal Meteorological Society monthly meeting on the history of climate science

03/10/14 - Attended a climate scientist & sceptic dinner party, which was reported in Guardian

27/09/14 - Gave public talk on climate change to Ascot Environmental Group

30/08/14 - Quoted in Daily Mail article about Arctic sea-ice decline

15/07/14 - Gave oral evidence to House of Lords inquiry on the Arctic (audio, transcript)

03/07/14 - Our Nature Comment discussed by Carbon Brief (with videos)

13/04/14 - Quoted in Wall Street Journal on IPCC report

25/03/14 - Live interview on Radio 5live discussing UK seasonal weather

10/03/14 - Quoted in Guardian on climate sensitvity (and also in The Times)

07/03/14 - Quoted in BBC article on climate sensitivity

20/11/13 - Quoted and figure used in article on Carbon Brief about global temperatures

09/11/13 - Participated in panel discussion on the IPCC report at the London Climate Forum

03/11/13 - Quoted in article in Mail on Sunday on pause

30/09/13 - Wrote an article on the history of climate science for The Conversation blog

27/09/13 - Live on 5Live (mp3) about the IPCC report, with Tamsin Edwards

27/09/13 - Appeared live on Sky News and BBC News Channel about the IPCC report:

27/09/13 - Quoted in Daily Mail and Guardian blog discussing the IPCC report and temperature hiatus

24/09/13 - Appeared on BBC Newsnight discussing the slowdown in global temperatures

14/09/13 - Interviewed on BBC Radio Berkshire by Henry Kelly about the Arctic (mp3)

09/09/13 - Quoted in Mail on Sunday, The Guardian & The Times on Arctic sea ice

18/07/13 - Figure from Climate Lab Book blog discussed in US Senate Committee for Environment & Public Works hearing (at around 3h27m)

10/07/13 - Quoted in Nature article on decadal prediction

22/04/13 - Study on Guy Callendar highlighted in The Guardian (press release)

03/13 - Figure from Climate Lab Book blog discussed in Mail on Sunday (and again here), The Economist, The Australian & Carbon Brief blog and by the UK Climate Change Committee

13/01/13 - Quoted in Guardian article discussing our study of French maize yield (press release)

10/01/13 - Quoted in Carbon Brief blog, The Times (no link available) and The Australian on the Met Office decadal forecasts

03/12/12 - Quoted in a climate change article in the Metro

22/11/12 - Lecture at annual meeting of a private equity company

27/03/12 - The University published a YouTube video of me talking about 'not if, but when'



01/02/12 - Article in Significance magazine - 'Our evolving climate' (or PDF)

12/12/11 - Press release on when climate change could affect the tropics

17/11/11 - Gave talk at Reading Skeptics in the Pub event

24/10/11 - Press release on when global temperatures might reach 2C. Followed up at The Independent.

19/08/09 - Press release on the potential to improve climate predictions. Followed up at Nature Reports Climate Change and realclimate.org.

09/05/08 - New Scientist article on the predictability of rapid changes in the overturning circulation