Somebody we have only discovered recently thanks to the efforts of our friends @clim8crisis is Sir David King.

Sir David King has held many prestigious positions within academia at both Cambridge and Oxford Universities. King has published over 500 papers on his research in chemical physics and on science and policy.

Outside of academia, he was Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government and Head of the Government Office for Science from 2000 to 2007. He was then senior scientific adviser to UBS, a Swiss investment bank and financial services company, from 2008 to 2013. From 2013 to 2017, he returned to working with the UK Government as Special Representative for Climate Change to the Foreign Secretary.

He therefore knows just a little bit about climate change, the impacts it is having on our world, and how we can best go about addressing the biggest challenge to our survival our species has ever faced.

We would highly recommend watching some of his speeches on YouTube. Relavant links to some of his talks are shown below:

Some of his eye opening observations include the fact that we are not at 420 parts per million of GHG in the atmosphere, but actually closer to 500 ppm when including methane, that the arctic is warming 4 times faster than the global average and that reaching net zero is not enough; he is a big believer in efforts to re-freeze the Arctic, as changes there impact the rest of the world! Well worth a watch and listening to – quite the eye opener! ?

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