Julia Slingo was interviewed on The Life Scientific this morning. The show is very much about a friendly chat rather than a penetrating interview, so expectations were low, but there were nevertheless a couple of interesting moments.
One of these concerned the pause in global warming, Dame Julia putting the blame on deep-ocean heat transport and in particular the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. Unfortunately, interesting followup questions were not put, for example
There was also a wonderful bit of footwork when presenter Jim Al-Khalili asked whether the climate models had predicted the pause and was told "yes these models have these periods of slowdown", which I think, on referring to Ed Hawkins' famous graph, means "no".
