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From blistering heatwaves to record-breaking rainfall and unseasonal cold snaps, our weather is becoming more erratic and extreme. Join the Grantham Institute to explore how the climate crisis is warping and intensifying weather in the UK and around the world.
We’ll be joined by two prominent voices in the field: Dr Fredi Otto, leading climate scientist and co-lead of World Weather Attribution (WWA), and Laura Tobin, expert broadcast meteorologist, who will share stories from their careers shaped by the rise of extreme weather events. Gain insight into the science behind these phenomena, the real-world impacts they are having on our lives, and what we can do to adapt to a rapidly changing climate.
Please note this event is being recorded and has very limited seating.
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About the speakers
Dr Friederike (Fredi) Otto is a physicist by training and joined Imperial College London as a Senior Lecturer in Climate Science at the Grantham Institute in 2021.
She is co-founder and lead of World Weather Attribution (WWA), an international effort to analyse and communicate the influence of climate change on extreme weather events. Fredi was a lead on two reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sixth Assessment Cycle (AR6) that were published in March 2023.
In 2021 Fredi was recognised in the TIME100 list as one of the world’s most influential individual and as one of the top 10 people who made a difference in science in 2021, by the journal Nature. In 2023 she received the prestigious German Environmental Prize.
Laura Tobin is a tv weather presenter and fully qualified meteorologist. She studied BSc Physics and Meteorology at the University of Reading. Completed her forecaster training at the Met office, was an aviation forecaster at the RAF for 4 years and has been a broadcast meteorologist for 14 years. 6 at the BBC and 9 at ITV.
Laura has presented the weather while abseiling and on roller coasters, from mountains to beaches, Buckingham Palace to cathedrals but increasingly she has been covering more and more extreme weather in her weather reports and climate change. It is becoming increasingly clear we are having more extreme weather, more often and it’s happening close and closer to home. Laura visited Svalbard, which is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth to look at the impacts of Climate change and how that affects us here in the UK.
Following her visit to COP26, Laura released her first book ‘Everyday Ways To Save The Planet’ which is an insightful and interactive book encouraging readers to implement changes big and small into each household.
On the release of her book, Laura has appeared on Loose Women, Lorraine, Vicky Pattinson show and more to promote the message of going green.