Piers Corbyn
Piers Corbyn
Piers Richard Corbyn is the owner of the business WeatherAction which makes weather forecasts. He is the older brother of Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth10 March 1947
carbon general trend
The general trend in the last 4,000 years is that carbon dioxide and temperature have been moving against each other.
accessible best consistent data european extreme forecast kept longer major records taxpayer thanks
The weather records of the U.S.A. are the best kept and most accessible in the world, thanks to consistent government/military taxpayer support. There are longer European data sets, but the U.S.A. data is enough to forecast major extreme events.
weather keys storm
The key thing to understand is that solar activity causes shifts in the jet stream with consequent changes in weather patterns and triggers processes that lead to storm formation.
moving years trends
The general trend in the last 4,000 years is that carbon dioxide and temperature have been moving against each other.
bronze-medal views years
My view is that climate changes have happened in the last 80 years, that is, the world has got a little bit warmer, although not as warm as it has been in Medieval times, or the Bronze Age.
weather limits climate
Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.
hockey ice age
It's not the case that carbon dioxide drives temperatures. When you leave Ice Ages, it's the other way around: The temperatures go up first, and then carbon dioxide levels go up.
years might lasts
Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor during the previous interglacial, nor the one before that. So, they're just used as a deceitful heartthrob; you know, to pluck your heartstrings because the polar bears might die out.
military data weather
The weather records of the U.S.A. are the best kept and most accessible in the world, thanks to consistent government/military taxpayer support. There are longer European data sets, but the U.S.A. data is enough to forecast major extreme events.