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It's summer of 2003 and Europe is experiencing its most intense heat wave on record.
I remember it well.
I was on holiday with my family in France and suffered mild heatstroke elsewhere.
As the sun sets on a small village in Tuscany,
another British holidaymaker is braving the cooler evening temperatures to enjoy a glass of wine
on the piazza with his wife
and proving
that scientists are never really off duty.
It was at that very moment that climate scientist Peter Stott had the spark of an idea.
He realised that using complex climate models developed by his team
at the UK's Met Office Hadley center,
he might be able to study a single extreme weather event such as this very heat wave mathematically
and figure out the extent to which human influences were increasing the probability of these events.
That's exactly what he went on to do.
And through this work and more, Peter has helped shape our understanding of the warming world,
illuminating the causes and effects of climate change.
His career, predominantly at the Hadley Centre,
has seen Peter take on climate change skeptics