Speakers:
Dr Richard Betts, Report Author, Met Office Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction
Dr Chris Huntingford, Mathematician, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
The interaction between plants and flooding risk under future global warming scenarios was the basis of a report in Nature. In light of recent flooding events in the UK, the Science Media Centre invited the report’s lead author to discuss the impact of this research on instances of drought and flood in the UK.