Tim Lenton
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Timothy Michael Lenton OBE FGS FLS FRSB (born July 1973) is Professor of Climate Change and Earth System Science at the University of Exeter. He was awarded a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2013.[1]
Background
He graduated with a first-class degree in natural sciences from Robinson College, Cambridge in 1994 and completed his PhD under Andrew Watson at the University of East Anglia in 1998.[2][3]
Gaia hypothesis
Lenton has taken an interest in the Gaia hypothesis for much of his career. Early in his career, in the journal Nature,[4] Lenton addressed a concern that the Gaia hypothesis was incompatible with the theory of natural selection by demonstrating that a model based on Daisyworld was strengthened by incorporating natural selection. In the same year, Lenton co-authored the paper "Spora and Gaia" with W. D. Hamilton, proposing that marine algae's tendency to release dimethyl sulfide, which in turn acts as a chemical precursor for cloud condensation nuclei, is an adaptive trait, as the algae can use the clouds to disperse themselves around the world.[5] Lenton, with Andy Watson, co-authored the book Revolutions that Made the Earth;[6] it expands on the ideas of James Lovelock on the Gaia hypothesis, by highlighting mechanisms by which the Earth system has been stabilised by negative feedbacks throughout Earth history.
Climate change
Impacts
Lenton has participated in studies of possible population displacement due to climate change.[7]
Tipping points
Lenton has been called 'a leading tipping point expert'.[8][9]
Lenton was awarded the OBE in the 2025 Birthday Honours, for services to understanding climate tipping points.[10]
Publications
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Lenton, T. M.; Marsh, R.; Price, A. R.; Lunt, D. J.; Aksenov, Y.; Annan, J. D.; Cooper-Chadwick, T.; Cox, S. J.; Edwards, N. R.; Goswami, S.; Hargreaves, J. C.; Harris, P. P.; Jiao, Z.; Livina, V. N.; Payne, A. J.; Rutt, I. C.; Shepherd, J. G.; Valdes, P. J.; Williams, G.; Williamson, M. S.; Yool, A. (2007). "Effects of atmospheric dynamics and ocean resolution on bi-stability of the thermohaline circulation examined using the Grid ENabled Integrated Earth system modelling (GENIE) framework" (PDF). Climate Dynamics. 29 (6): 591. Bibcode:2007ClDy...29..591L. doi:10.1007/s00382-007-0254-9. S2CID 12716899.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Goldblatt, C.; Lenton, T.; Watson, A. (2006). "Bistability of atmospheric oxygen and the Great Oxidation". Nature. 443 (7112): 683–686. Bibcode:2006Natur.443..683G. doi:10.1038/nature05169. PMID 17036001. S2CID 4425486.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Lenton, T. M.; Williamson, M. S.; Edwards, N. R.; Marsh, R.; Price, A. R.; Ridgwell, A. J.; Shepherd, J. G.; Cox, S. J.; The GENIE team (2006). "Millennial timescale carbon cycle and climate change in an efficient Earth system model" (PDF). Climate Dynamics. 26 (7–8): 687–711. Bibcode:2006ClDy...26..687L. doi:10.1007/s00382-006-0109-9. S2CID 6607417.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Lenton, T. M.; Watson, A. J. (2004). "Biotic enhancement of weathering, atmospheric oxygen and carbon dioxide in the Neoproterozoic". Geophysical Research Letters. 31 (5): L05202. Bibcode:2004GeoRL..31.5202L. doi:10.1029/2003GL018802.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Lenton, T. M. (2000). "Land and ocean carbon cycle feedback effects on global warming in a simple Earth system model". Tellus B. 52 (5): 1159–1188. Bibcode:2000TellB..52.1159L. doi:10.1034/j.1600-0889.2000.01104.x.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Lenton, T. M. (1998). "Gaia and natural selection". Nature. 394 (6692): 439–447. Bibcode:1998Natur.394..439L. doi:10.1038/28792. PMID 9697767. S2CID 4412683.
References
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Royal Society announces new round of Wolfson Research Merit Awards". Royal Society. 26 April 2013. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Lenton, T. (1998). "Gaia and Natural Selection". Nature. 394 (6692): 439–447. Bibcode:1998Natur.394..439L. doi:10.1038/28792. PMID 9697767. S2CID 4412683.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hamilton, W.D.; Lenton, T.M. (1998). "Spora and Gaia: how microbes fly with their clouds". Ethology Ecology & Evolution. 10 (1): 1–16. Bibcode:1998EtEcE..10....1H. doi:10.1080/08927014.1998.9522867. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-23.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Lenton, Tim (20 March 2011). Revolutions that Made the Earth. OUP Oxford. ISBN 9780199587049.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Carrington, Damian (2023-05-22). "Global heating will push billions outside 'human climate niche'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-08-21.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The scourge of climate doomism | Financial Times". www.ft.com. Retrieved 2023-08-21.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."A Sustainable Future: Prof. Tim Lenton, on Planetary Boundaries, Early Warning Systems and Climate Tipping Points | Man Institute". www.man.com. Retrieved 2023-08-21.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Page B9 | Supplement 64759, 14 June 2025 | London Gazette | The Gazette". www.thegazette.co.uk.
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