Editing Hubert Lamb (section)

===Climatic Research Unit===
In 1971 Lamb decided to base his pioneering research at a university, and he became the first director of the [[Climatic Research Unit]] established in 1972 in the School of Environmental Sciences at the [[University of East Anglia]].<ref name="History CRU" /> In 1973 and 1975 he arranged for two international conferences which were hosted in [[Norwich]]. He was known as "the ice man" because of his view that [[global cooling]] would lead to a future [[glacial period]] within 10,000 years with some abrupt cooling phases occurring "within one to two thousand years".<ref name=Lamb1995>{{cite book
 | last = Lamb
 | first = Hubert H.
 | author-link = Hubert Lamb
 | title = Climate, history and the modern world
 | publisher = Routledge
 | edition = Second
 | date = 1995
 | location = London
 | isbn = 0-415-12735-1
 }}</ref>{{rp|368}} However he also acknowledged that [[global warming]] could have serious effects within a century.<ref name=Lamb1995 />{{rp|365}} His warnings of damage to agriculture, ice caps melting, and cities being flooded caught widespread attention and helped to shape public opinion. He gained the unit sponsorship from seven major insurance companies, who wanted to make use of the research of the unit when making their own studies of the implications of climate change for insurance against storm and flood damage. He retired from the unit in 1978, and his contributions to the unit were recognised in 1981 when he was granted an honorary Doctorate of Science.<ref name=HistUAE285 />