Met Office Hadley Centre

I mean, I was actually, I did my degree, undergraduate degree in physics, and then I did a PhD in plasma physics, actually working on nuclear fusion research, you know, which was the great hope for clean energy in the 70s and 80s.

Then I moved to the Met Office in 1990, which is obviously the weather forecasting service, and into the new Hadley Centre, which was the climate prediction centre that's still there, when it first started up.

And because it was the beginning and they didn't have many trained climate modelling scientists or earth system modellers, as we call them now, they were able to take me on, even though I wasn't particularly well qualified to do it, to start with.

You know, I was a physicist and they got me modelling vegetation.