US President Barack Obama tweets story featuring University of Reading researcher
Release Date 16 May 2013
Mark Richardson, a postgraduate researcher in the University of Reading's Department of Meteorology, contributed towards a paper that showed 97% of climate scientists agree on man-made climate change.
The story was featured by Reuters, the Guardian, Sydney Morning Herald, Brisbane Times, Chicago Sun Times, and many others.
It was then tweeted by US President Barack Obama to his 31.5 million followers on Twitter, and retweeted 1,800 times.