Awards and Honors
- Albert Einstein World Award of Science (2009)
- Japan Prize (2006)
- International Meteorological Organization Prize (1999)
- American Meteorological Society, Honorary Member (1998)
- Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal (1995)
- Global 500 Award, under the United Nations Environmental Programme (1994)
- Climate Institute Annual Award (1992)
- Bakerian Prize Lecture of the Royal Society, (1991);
- Symons Memorial Medal, Royal Meteorological Society (1991)
- Glazebrook Medal Institute of Physics, (1990);
- President of the Royal Meteorological Society (1976–1978)
In December 2007 he received the Nobel Peace Prize as part of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) delegation, alongside the former vice-president of the United States, Al Gore.
He has received Honorary Doctorates of Science from the Universities of Wales (1991), Stirling (1992), East Anglia (1993), Leeds (1995), Heriot-Watt (1996), Greenwich (1997), Glamorgan (1998), Reading (1999), Birmingham (2000), Gloucestershire (2001), Hull (2002) and Dalhousie (2010). He is an Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford and of University of Wales, Lampeter and is also a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.
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