Tim Lenton
Professor of Earth System Science
- Laboratory for Global Marine and Atmospheric Chemistry
- School of Environmental Sciences
- University of East Anglia
- Norwich
- NR4 7TJ
- UK
- +44 (0)1603 591414
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Research interests
My research interests span the full range of Earth system timescales, from the formation of the planet 4.6 billion years ago to current and future human-induced global change. My main research tools are a spectrum of Earth system models, which I and my group are actively developing. We use the models with available data to test hypotheses about Earth system function. I am particularly interested in the feedbacks between life and its environment and how the resulting coupled system has evolved over time.
Tipping points in the climate system
The work I led on tipping elements in the climate system has just won the Times Higher Education Award for Research Project of the Year. If you want to find out more about tipping elements and tipping points in the climate system, I’ve written an introductory article. I’ve also written a commentary on the policy implications published in Nature Reports Climate Change. The full paper has now been published in PNAS and is open access, so anyone should be able to download it. You can also get a copy from this site along with the supporting information. Surprising evidence that scientists occasionally exhibit tipping points in their level of atire can be found here.