Impacts

The climate is a global interacting system, so any changes can exert an effect anywhere across the planet.

Modelling impacts

Part of the Met Office, the Hadley Centre is the UK’s official centre for climate change research. The centre works towards the following aims:

  • understanding physical, chemical and biological processes within the climate system and develop representative computer models of the climate
  • monitoring global and UK climate trends
  • using computer models to simulate climate change and variability in the past and to predict future changes
  • attributing recent changes in climate to possible causes, including human activities

There are various types of model external link used to simulate and predict the climate. Although limitations in computing power, our understanding of complex interactions of the climate system and future greenhouse gas emissions mean that we cannot eliminate uncertainty about model results, the ability to predict the likelihood of particular outcomes is improving. 

To find out more about the work of the Hadley Centre, visit their website: