Peter A. Stott is a climate scientist who leads the Climate Monitoring and Attribution team of the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research at the Met Office in Exeter, UK. He is an expert on anthropogenic and natural causes of climate change.
He was a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group I report, chapter 9, for the AR4 released in 2007 and is an editor of the Journal of Climate.
Peter has an undergraduate degree in Mathematics from Durham University and completed Part III of the Mathematical Tripos at the University of Cambridge. He was awarded a PhD by Imperial College London for work on atmospheric modelling of the environmental consequences of the Chernobyl disaster. After his PhD he carried out postdoctoral research at the University of Edinburgh on stratospheric ozone depletion.
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“Peter answered him, “Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water.””
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 14:28.
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—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
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—Bill Stott (b. 1940)