Vicky Pope

Pope attended North London Collegiate School.{{Cite web |title=StackPath |url=https://www.nlcs.org.uk/old-north-londoners/onls-through-the-ages/dr-vicky-pope |access-date=2022-06-30 |website=www.nlcs.org.uk }}{{Dead link|date=May 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} She joined the Met Office in the 1980s and went on to complete a PhD in Meteorology at the University of Reading.{{Cite web |title=Iris View Profile |url=https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=VDPOP98 |access-date=2022-06-30 |website=iris.ucl.ac.uk}}

She spent 6 years as manager of atmospheric climate model development and evaluation. She became a senior manager of the climate research programme for a number of UK Government departments in 2002. Since October 2004 she was Head of the Climate Prediction Programme which provides independent scientific advice on climate change. Her research interests include developing and validating climate models.

She is a professor at Gresham College, and an honorary professor at University College London.{{Cite web|title=Vicky Pope|url=https://www.gresham.ac.uk/professors-and-speakers/vicky-pope/|access-date=2021-05-05|website=Gresham College}}{{Cite web|title=Climate Resilience and Sustainability|url=https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/26924587|access-date=2021-05-05|website=Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS)|language=en}}

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In an article for The Guardian newspaper, she wrote: "Having to rein in extraordinary claims that the latest extreme event is all due to climate change is at best hugely frustrating and at worse enormously distracting. Overplaying natural variations in the weather as climate change is just as much a distortion of science as underplaying them to claim that climate change has stopped or is not happening."

She added: "Both undermine the basic facts that the implications of climate change are profound and will be severe if greenhouse gas emissions are not cut drastically." {{Cite web|last=Adam|first=David|date=2009-02-11|title=Apocalyptic predictions' mislead the public on climate change, say experts|url=http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/feb/11/climate-change-misleading-claims|access-date=2021-05-05|website=The Guardian|language=en}}

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• {{cite journal |first1=Vicky |last1=Pope |display-authors=etal|title= The Met Office Hadley Centre climate modelling capability: The competing requirements for improved resolution, complexity and dealing with uncertainty|journal= Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences|volume=365 |issue=1860 |date= 15 November 2007 |pages= 2635–265 |doi=10.1098/rsta.2007.2087 |pmid=17666385 |bibcode=2007RSPTA.365.2635P |s2cid=303390 }}
• Led the Met Office Hadley Centre contribution of climate science to the Stern review: the Economics of Climate Change.
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• {{cite journal |first1=Vicky |last1=Pope |first2=Terry |last2=Davies |title=Testing and Evaluating Atmospheric Climate Models |journal=Computing in Science and Engineering |volume=4 |issue=5 |pages=64–69 |date=September–October 2002 |doi=10.1109/MCISE.2002.1032431 |url=http://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/cs/2002/05/c5064-abs.html|bibcode=2002CSE.....4e..64P |doi-access=free }}
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• {{cite journal |first1=V.D. |last1=Pope |first2=M.L. |last2=Gallani |first3=P.R. |last3=Rowntree |first4=R.A. |last4=Stratton |title=The impact of new physical parametrizations in the Hadley Centre climate model: HadAM3 |journal=Climate Dynamics |volume=16 |issue=2–3 |pages=123–146 |year=2000 |doi= 10.1007/s003820050009|bibcode=2000ClDy...16..123P |s2cid=129848975 }}
• {{cite journal |first1=WA |last1=Lahoz |first2=A. |last2=O'Neill |first3=A. |last3=Heaps |first4=V.D. |last4=Pope |first5=R. |last5=Swinbank |first6=R.S. |last6=Harwood |first7=L. |last7=Froidevaux |first8=W.G. |last8=Read |first9=J.W. |last9=Waters |first10=G.E. |last10=Peckham |title=Vortex dynamics and the evolution of water vapour in the stratosphere of the southern hemisphere |journal=Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society |volume=122 |issue=530 |pages=423–450 |year=1996 |doi= 10.1002/qj.49712253007|url=http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jissue/113523550 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121216133357/http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jissue/113523550 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-12-16 |bibcode=1996QJRMS.122..423L |url-access=subscription }}
• {{cite journal |first1=A. |last1=O'Neill |first2=W.L. |last2=Grose |first3=V.D. |last3=Pope |first4=H. |last4=MacLean |first5=R. |last5=Swinbank |title=Evolution of the Stratosphere during Northern Winter 1991/92 as Diagnosed from U.K. Meteorological Office Analyses |journal=Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences |volume=51 |issue=20 |pages=2800–17 |date=October 1994 |doi= 10.1175/1520-0469(1994)051<2800:EOTSDN>2.0.CO;2|bibcode=1994JAtS...51.2800O |doi-access=free }}
• {{cite journal |first1=A. |last1=O'Neill |first2=V.D. |last2=Pope |title=Simulations of linear and nonlinear disturbances in the stratosphere |journal=Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society |volume=114 |issue=482 |pages=1063–1110 |year=1988 |doi= 10.1002/qj.49711448210|url=http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jissue/113523042 |bibcode=1988QJRMS.114.1063O |url-access=subscription }}{{dead link|date=January 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
• {{cite journal |first1=C.R. |last1=Mechoso |first2=A. |last2=O'Neill |first3=V.D. |last3=Pope |first4=J.D. |last4=Farrara |title=A study of the stratospheric final warming of 1982 in the southern hemisphere |journal=Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society |volume=114 |issue=484 |pages=1365–84 |year=1988 |doi= 10.1002/qj.49711448402|url=http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jissue/113523140 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121216135604/http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jissue/113523140 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-12-16 |bibcode=1988QJRMS.114.1365M |url-access=subscription }}
• {{cite journal |first1=M.J. |last1=Bailey |first2=A. |last2=O'Neill |first3=V.D. |last3=Pope |title=Stratospheric Analyses Produced by the United Kingdom Meteorological Office |journal=Journal of Applied Meteorology |volume=32 |issue=9 |pages=1472–83 |year=1993 |doi= 10.1175/1520-0450(1993)032<1472:SAPBTU>2.0.CO;2|bibcode=1993JApMe..32.1472B |doi-access=free }}

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• [https://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/graphic_design/all/02888/facts.james_lovelock_et_al_the_earth_and_i.htm Sun and superstorms: Our changing climate]. (2016) Chapter for The Earth and I: a book of essays edited by James Lovelock

• [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6320515.stm Models 'key to climate forecasts']. BBC
• Climate change, the real facts, The Sun newspaper
• [http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/feb/11/climate-change-science-pope Scientists must rein in misleading claims], Guardian
• [https://www.thetimes.com/article/research-is-robust-but-communication-is-weak-hkqj895nllm Research is robust but communication is weak], The Times
• [http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/cif-green/2010/sep/16/science-climate-change-adaptation?INTCMP=SRCH How science will shape climate adaptation plans], The Guardian
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• [http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/learning/library/publications/climate-change Brochures on climate science for visitors to the UNFCCC climate conferences and interested stakeholders], 2005-2010

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