This week there's another chance to hear Adam's conversation with Welsh climate scientist and Nobel Prize winner, Sir John Houghton.

Broadcast Sunday 10th June at 6.30am

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Sir John Houghton is a pioneering climate scientist and campaigner for recognition of the issue of human-induced climate change. He's described global warming as "a weapon of mass destruction" and through his work on climate change he won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Born in Dyserth in Denbighshire, John Houghton attended Rhyl Grammar School before going on to Cambridge to study physics. He became Professor of Atmospheric Physics at Oxford and Chief Executive at the Met Office where he founded its Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research. But it was as co-chair of the science working group for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC, and author of their first three reports, that he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.

In this week's Science Cafe, to mark John Houghton's eightieth birthday, he joins Adam Walton to consider his early scientific influences, his comment that climate change is "a weapon of mass destruction" and whether we've reached the tipping point where climate change is inevitable. He also discusses his Christian faith and his belief that science and religion can complement rather than oppose each other.

Links

Wikipedia: Sir John Houghton

BBC News: 'Climate Change Scientists Losing 'PR War''

Christianity and Environmentalism - Briefing Paper by John Houghton