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 has not suddenly got worse: instead, we have an improved estimate of how much warming has taken place.”  The main contributor to warming over the last 170 years is human influence on climate from increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The effects of human-induced climate change

young people aged 7-14 to be prepared for the effects of weather and climate change on them and their communities. Find out more at www.metoffice.gov.uk/schools © Crown Copyright 2019, Met Office 6 Forecasting fact-busters | Forecasting and prediction Forecast cards Location: Edinburgh Location

provide shelter from low cloud and surface winds. How has Bristol’s climate changed? Tides – The Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary cause a funnelling of tides and consequently a high tidal range. Air pressure, wind speed and its direction can also influence the height and impact of a storm surge

Development Solutions Dr M Budimir, Senior Climate and Resilience Expert, Impact, Influence and Innovation, Practical Action Jawairia Ahmad, Land atmosphere scientist, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Adriaan Perrel, Economic analysis Lead, Tyrsky Consulting Douglas Parker, PI, University of Leeds

Climate change will have an increasing impact on our lives, including the sport we love to watch.

for the future and using our influence to support this important cause.” You can read more about Wimbledon’s environment day here. Professor Peter Stott at Wimbledon explaining the potential impacts of climate change using Met Office climate projections. The future forecast was based on climate projections

Richard is Head of Climate Impacts Research in the Met Office Hadley Centre and a Professor at the University of Exeter. He is currently leading the writing of the Technical Report for the UK's 3rd Climate Change Risk Assessment.

vegetation model. Between 1994–1998 he also worked on his PhD on modelling the influence of the vegetated land surface on climate, including feedbacks from global vegetation on climate change. Following his PhD, Richard published an influential paper comparing the impacts of carbon uptake

the 1980s and 1990s, a capability was operationalized to make skillful seasonal climate forecasts for many regions including boreal summer rainfall in the Sahel. The primary source of predictability for these seasonal forecasts in the Sahel is the influence exerted by large scale sea surface

to understand and take action to adapt to the impacts we are already locked into. Introduction The climate system responds to human influences on a range of different time-scales. Changes in the net amount of the sun’s energy absorbed by the Earth, known as the ‘radiative forcing’, happen quickly in response

The link between extreme weather and climate change. Does climate change mean football’s not coming home? The last comprehensive survey of grassroots football (Sports and Recreation Alliance (2014) Alliance Survey referenced in Rapid Transition Alliance: Playing against the clock (2020)) revealed

than average sea surface temperatures also helped develop cloud, which has been quite a frequent visitor this season.” Dr Mark McCarthy, of the Met Office National Climate Information Centre, said: “It was a particularly dull and wet start to spring, and with April more in line with averages