Richard A. Betts

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Richard Arthur Betts
Occupation Climate scientist

Richard Arthur Betts MBE is Head of the Climate Impacts strategic area at the Met Office Hadley Centre in Exeter, United Kingdom. [1] [2] He is also chair in Climate Impacts at the University of Exeter and the Principal Investigator of the EU FP7 project HELIX (High-End cLimate Impacts and eXtremes). He was a lead author for Working Group I [3] and a contributing author for Working Group II [4] of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. He was a lead author for Working Group II of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report. [5] He is an editor for the International Journal of Global Warming, [6] the Journal of Environmental Investing, [7] and for Earth System Dynamics. [8] He was appointed MBE in the 2019 Birthday Honours. [9] [10]

After studying physics at the University of Bristol, Betts switched to meteorology at the University of Birmingham and then studied for a doctorate in meteorology at the University of Reading. [1] He is noted for engaging with critics of climate science on Twitter [2] and was selected by TIME as one of the 140 best Twitter feeds of 2012. [11] He was awarded the 2019 Climate Science Communications Award by the Royal Meteorological Society. [12]

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