Peter A. Stott

{{Short description|British climate scientist}}

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| workplaces = Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research
University of Edinburgh

| alma_mater = Durham University
University of Cambridge
Imperial College London

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| thesis_title = Effects of physical and chemical processes in storms on reactor accident consequences

| thesis_year = 1989

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| known_for = climate change research

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| awards = Oceanic and Atmospheric Research Outstanding Scientific Paper Award (2008)
Climate Science Communications Award (2018)

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Peter A. Stott MBE is a climate scientist who leads the Climate Monitoring and Attribution team of the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research at the Met Office in Exeter, UK. He is an expert on anthropogenic and natural causes of climate change.{{Cite journal | last1 = Wu | first1 = P. | last2 = Wood | first2 = R. | last3 = Stott | first3 = P. | authorlink3 = Peter A. Stott| title = Does the recent freshening trend in the North Atlantic indicate a weakening thermohaline circulation? | doi = 10.1029/2003GL018584 | journal = Geophysical Research Letters | volume = 31 | issue = 2 | pages = L02301 | year = 2004 |bibcode = 2004GeoRL..31.2301W | s2cid = 134082106 | doi-access = free }}{{Cite journal | last1 = Stott | first1 = P. A. | last2 = Jones | first2 = G. S. | last3 = Mitchell | first3 = J. F. B. | title = Do Models Underestimate the Solar Contribution to Recent Climate Change? | journal = Journal of Climate | volume = 16 | issue = 24 | pages = 4079 | year = 2003 | doi = 10.1175/1520-0442(2003)016<4079:DMUTSC>2.0.CO;2 | bibcode = 2003JCli...16.4079S }}{{Cite journal | last1 = Stott | first1 = P. A. | authorlink1 = Peter A. Stott| last2 = Tett | first2 = S. F. | last3 = Jones | first3 = G. S. | last4 = Allen | first4 = M. R. | last5 = Mitchell | first5 = J. F. | last6 = Jenkins | first6 = G. J. | title = External Control of 20th Century Temperature by Natural and Anthropogenic Forcings | doi = 10.1126/science.290.5499.2133 | journal = Science | volume = 290 | issue = 5499 | pages = 2133–2137 | year = 2000 | pmid = 11118145| bibcode = 2000Sci...290.2133S }}{{Cite journal | last1 = Stott | first1 = P. A. | authorlink1 = Peter A. Stott| last2 = Kettleborough | first2 = J. A. | doi = 10.1038/416723a | title = Origins and estimates of uncertainty in predictions of twenty-first century temperature rise | journal = Nature | volume = 416 | issue = 6882 | pages = 723–726 | year = 2002 | pmid = 11961551| bibcode = 2002Natur.416..723S | s2cid = 4326593 }}{{Cite journal | last1 = Stott | first1 = P. A. | authorlink1 = Peter A. Stott| doi = 10.1029/2003GL017324 | title = Attribution of regional-scale temperature changes to anthropogenic and natural causes | journal = Geophysical Research Letters | volume = 30 | issue = 14 | pages = 1728 | year = 2003 |bibcode = 2003GeoRL..30.1728S | doi-access = }}{{Cite journal | last1 = Christidis | first1 = N. | last2 = Stott | first2 = P. A. | authorlink2 = Peter A. Stott| last3 = Brown | first3 = S. | last4 = Hegerl | first4 = G. C. | last5 = Caesar | first5 = J. | title = Detection of changes in temperature extremes during the second half of the 20th century | doi = 10.1029/2005GL023885 | journal = Geophysical Research Letters | volume = 32 | issue = 20 | pages = L20716 | year = 2005 |bibcode = 2005GeoRL..3220716C | url = https://www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/files/11317901/Detection.pdf | hdl = 20.500.11820/3a797ab6-27f5-4653-bdb4-50852b658d0e | s2cid = 17106830 | hdl-access = free }}{{Cite journal | last1 = Stott | first1 = P. A. | authorlink1 = Peter A. Stott| last2 = Mitchell | first2 = J. F. B. | last3 = Allen | first3 = M. R. | last4 = Delworth | first4 = T. L. | last5 = Gregory | first5 = J. M. | last6 = Meehl | first6 = G. A. | last7 = Santer | first7 = B. D. | doi = 10.1175/JCLI3802.1 | title = Observational Constraints on Past Attributable Warming and Predictions of Future Global Warming | journal = Journal of Climate | volume = 19 | issue = 13 | pages = 3055 | year = 2006 |bibcode = 2006JCli...19.3055S | doi-access = free }}{{Cite journal | last1 = Stott | first1 = P. A. | authorlink1 = Peter A. Stott| last2 = Sutton | first2 = R. T. | last3 = Smith | first3 = D. M. | title = Detection and attribution of Atlantic salinity changes | doi = 10.1029/2008GL035874 | journal = Geophysical Research Letters | volume = 35 | issue = 21 | pages = L21702 | year = 2008 |bibcode = 2008GeoRL..3521702S | doi-access = free }}{{Cite journal | last1 = Palmer | first1 = M. D. | last2 = Good | first2 = S. A. | last3 = Haines | first3 = K. | last4 = Rayner | first4 = N. A. | last5 = Stott | first5 = P. A. | authorlink5 = Peter A. Stott| title = A new perspective on warming of the global oceans | doi = 10.1029/2009GL039491 | journal = Geophysical Research Letters | volume = 36 | issue = 20 | pages = L20709 | year = 2009 |bibcode = 2009GeoRL..3620709P | doi-access = }}

He was a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group I report, chapter 9, for the AR4 released in 2007 and is an editor of the Journal of Climate.

Stott has an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Durham University{{cite web |title=Gazette, 1982/83 |url=http://reed.dur.ac.uk/xtf/view?docId=bookreader/DU_Gazettes/DUGazette1982-3/DUGazette19823METS.xml#page/80/mode/2up |website=Durham University Archive |access-date=10 July 2019 |page=81}} and completed Part III of the Mathematical Tripos at the University of Cambridge. He was awarded a PhD by Imperial College London for work on atmospheric modelling of the environmental consequences of the Chernobyl disaster.{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|first=Peter |last=Stott|title=Effects of physical and chemical processes in storms on reactor accident consequences|publisher=Imperial College London|year=1989|authorlink=Peter A. Stott|hdl=10044/1/47676 }} After his PhD he carried out postdoctoral research at the University of Edinburgh on stratospheric ozone depletion.

In 2021, he published the book "Hot Air: the Inside Story of the Battle Against Climate Change Denial", a thorough account of the decades-long battle to deny or downplay the existence of the climate crisis.{{Cite journal | last1 = Ahuja | first1 = Anjana | title = The tide of misinformation | journal = The New Statesman | volume = 150 | issue = 5643 | pages = 48–50 | year = 2021 |issn= 1364-7431}} He was shortlisted for the 2022 RSL Christopher Bland Prize for the book.{{Cite web |last=Cristi |first=A. A. |date=2022-05-16 |title=2022 Royal Society of Literature Christopher Bland Prize Shortlist Announced |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwbooks/article/2022-Royal-Society-of-Literature-Christopher-Bland-Prize-Shortlist-Announced-20220516 |access-date=2022-06-01 |website=BroadwayWorld.com |language=en}}