Professor Nigel Arnell has been the Director of the Walker Institute for Climate Systems Research at the University of Reading since August 2007. Prior to taking up this post, he was head of Geography at the University of Southampton where he obtained his PhD and BSC in the 1980’s before returning to lecture there...... Read More

This month Comment Visions gets right to the heart of the climate change debate by getting a long-term weather forecast from Professor Nigel Arnell, one of the world’s leading experts on climatic patterns. Professor Arnell heads the Walker Institute for Climate System research at the University of Reading. In this programme he discusses the planet’s changing weather patterns - rising temperatures, altered rainfall patterns - and looks at the prospects for the future. By comparing data from the past Professor Arnell argues that we can make some tentative predictions about the future and that the increase in energy around the surface of the earth - a consequence of greenhouse gases - is something that needs a response.

Monday: 05:15, 07:45, 15:45
Tuesday: 22:45*, 03:15
Wednesday: 11:15, 14:15, 18:45
Thursday: 05:15, 15:15, 17:45, 19:45
Friday: 11:45, 17:15, 04:15
Saturday: 09:15, 15:45, 18:45
Sunday: 09:15, 13:45, 23:15

*Starts Tuesday 22:45, all times CET.

Only broadcast in the first week of each month.