Tim Lenton

I’m Director of the Global Systems Institute and Professor of Earth System Science at the University of Exeter. My work focusses on the transformation of our planet.

Reading Jim Lovelock’s books on Gaia ignited my passion for studying the Earth as a whole system. I study how our remarkable planet came to be the way it is now. I study how humans are transforming the Earth’s system and how we might create a flourishing future within that system.

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Publications

Lenton, T. (2020). Tipping positive change. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 375(1794).
Lenton, T et al. (2020). Climate tipping points — too risky to bet against. Nature.
Lenton, T. M. (2020). On the use of models in understanding the rise of complex life. The Royal Society Publishing.
Lenton, T., & Latour, B. (2018) Gaia 2.0 Could humans add some level of self-awareness to Earth’s self-regulation? Science, 361(6407).
Boulton, C. A., & Lenton, T. (2015). Slowing down of North Pacific climate variability and its implications for abrupt ecosystem change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112, 11496–11501.
Lenton, T., Watson, A., & Watson, A. J. (2011). Revolutions that Made the Earth. Oxford University Press.

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