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Climate Change
Politicians and policy makers around the world seem to have woken up to the fact that global warming is going on, so you might think that the scientists’ work is done.
But as Peter Evans learns, the scientists think they’ve still much research to do.
He looks back to the early 1980s when climate change first made its way onto the political agenda, and asks why it took so long to become the global issue it is today.
Sir Crispin Tickell remembers how, as Permanent Secretary of the Official Development Assistance, he advised Margaret Thatcher to raise the then little-known of issue of climate change at the 1984 G7 meeting. The former Prime Minister's background as a scientist meant she was one of the few international leaders who recognised the problem and she was determined to bring it to global prominence.
The government's Chief Scientific Advisor, Professor Sir David King, along with Professor Jim Skea of the UK Energy Research Centre and Professor Stephen Schneider from the Department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University explain why it's taken so long for the evidence for climate change to be recognised by politicians.
And Professor Phil Jones, Director of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia and Professor Tom Wigley of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado discuss with Peter where climate change research needs to go next. | | |
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BBC Radio 4: Environmental Index
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Prof. Sir David King
UEA: Climatic Research Unit
National Center for Atmospheric Research (USA)
UK Energy Research Centre
Sir Crispin Tickell
Stephen H. Schneider, Climatologist
AIP: Spencer Weart
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