Ed Hawkins
Also known as Edward Hawkins
British climate scientist at the University of Reading who made the warming stripes.
At a glance
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- Ed Hawkins is a British climate scientist, professor of climate science at the University of Reading and principal research scientist at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science.
- He made the climate spiral (2016) and the warming stripes (2018), two of the most widely shared pictures of global warming.
- He was a lead author of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report and leads the Weather Rescue and Rainfall Rescue citizen-science projects.
- He writes the Climate Lab Book newsletter.
Key facts
- Role
- Professor of climate science, University of Reading; principal research scientist, National Centre for Atmospheric Science (as of 2025)1
- Known for
- Climate spiral (9 May 2016); warming stripes (22 May 2018); #ShowYourStripes (2019)1
- IPCC
- Lead author, Sixth Assessment Report (2021); contributing author, Fifth (2014)1
- Citizen science
- Leads Weather Rescue and Rainfall Rescue1
- Honours
- Kavli Medal of the Royal Society (2018); MBE (2020)1
- Education
- PhD in astrophysics, University of Nottingham (2003)1
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