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confirming his view that "on a global and geological scale that climate change is the most serious problem we are faced with this century", and illustrated it with a statement that "Fifty-five million years ago was a time when there was no ice on the earth; the
Antarctic was the most habitable place
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reported that King had at a later event compared current and projected carbon dioxide levels with the record over the past 60 million years, and in an indirect quote suggested King implied that
Antarctica was likely to be the world's "only" habitable continent by the end of this century if global
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From 2008 to 2012, King was
Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford. He was also a Fellow of University College, Oxford, from 2009 to 2012. He was President of Collegio Carlo Alberto in Turin, Italy, from 2008 to 2011, and was Chancellor of the
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process which advised government on a wide range of long-term issues, from flooding to obesity. He also chaired the government's Global
Science and Innovation Forum from its inception. King advised the government on issues including:
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In April 2008, King joined UBS, a Swiss investment bank, as senior science advisor. He left UBS to return to the UK government when he was appointed the
Foreign Secretary's Special Representative for Climate Change in September 2013.
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King was born on 12 August 1939 in South Africa, son of Arnold Tom Wallis King, of
Johannesburg, director of a paint company, and Patricia Mary Bede, née Vardy. His elder brother, Michael Wallis King (born 1937), was director of the
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College, Cambridge. He moved from St John's when he was elected Master of Downing College, Cambridge, in 1995. He stepped down as Master in 2000, and was then a Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, from 2001 to 2008.
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During his tenure as Chief
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By his first marriage, which ended in divorce, King has two sons. In 1983, he married, secondly, charity administrator and former head of a commercial law team, Jane
Margaret, daughter of
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King became head of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group in 2021, basing public meetings on a similar format to Independent SAGE, and publishing reports advising emission cuts and
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that the programme was unfair and had not given a chance to clarify was upheld, despite Channel 4's arguments that King was not named and had not challenged earlier reporting.
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From 2013 to 2016, King was the first chairman of the Future Cities Catapult, a government-funded body conducting research into
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secure energy supplies) he held at the time of the invasion, along with "quite a few people in government".
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for what he saw as its failures in climate change policy, saying it is "
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and subsequent effect on the developing world. He strongly supports
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Inderwildi, O. R.; King, D. A. (2009). "Quo vadis biofuels?".
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warming remains unchecked. At the end of the 2007 programme "
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from October 2000 to 31 December 2007, under prime ministers
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In 1991 he received the BVC Medal and Prize, awarded by
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Environmental Audit Select Committee (30 March 2004).
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failing to take up the challenge of global warming"
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1272:King, D. (2007). "Foresight report on obesity".
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520:and was instrumental in creating the £1 billion
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660:. He promotes the CCAG's 4R planet pathway:
369:of the University of Liverpool (2010–2013).
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357:from 2008 to 2012, and a Fellow of
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1317:"Big lessons for a healthy future"
1196:"The scientific impact of nations"
1181:"Nobel prize for superficial work"
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1097:"Collegio Aperto: Sir David King"
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378:Government Office for Science
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2166:"Hans Lichtenstein obituary"
1724:Adam, David (21 July 2008).
1183:– via telegraph.co.uk.
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971:Royal Academy of Engineering
950:UK public library membership
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1772:King, David (27 May 2024).
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2247:Downing College, Cambridge
1589:publications.parliament.uk
800:the British Vacuum Council
795:by the French government.
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2539:David Stewart Jenkinson
2341:British Association for
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935:Oxford University Press
753:Global Apollo Programme
500:Career outside academia
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409:. King was educated at
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200:Imperial College London
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2194:. London: Bloomsbury.
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832:. He was portrayed by
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363:Collegio Carlo Alberto
275:Sir David Anthony King
2559:Malcolm Douglas Lilly
1750:Edie (21 June 2021).
1647:"Minutes of Evidence"
1249:Bloomsbury Publishing
789:2003 New Year honours
732:due to the effect on
633:Independent on Sunday
605:2001 synthesis report
305:King first taught at
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2549:Philip Johnson-Laird
2494:Robert Wolfgang Cahn
2402:by Alison Benjamin,
2025:"Honours and Awards"
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205:University of Oxford
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2594:Kenneth John Packer
2584:John Norman Murrell
2544:Brian F. G. Johnson
2519:David Headley Green
2509:Bryan Randell Coles
2489:Peter Elwood Bryant
2406:, 27 November 2007.
2393:13 May 2020 at the
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423:Bachelor of Science
392:from 2013 to 2016.
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2564:George Owen Mackie
2504:Brian Charlesworth
2479:Michael John Bevan
2362:Biographical links
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1452:on 1 November 2014
1376:on 1 December 2017
779:Honours and awards
630:for mammals". The
443:Physical Chemistry
407:Anglo American plc
335:emeritus professor
169:Physical Chemistry
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1872:on 28 August 2011
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977:on 26 March 2016.
967:"List of Fellows"
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830:Hurricane Katrina
825:The Age of Stupid
565:COVID-19 pandemic
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386:Foreign Secretary
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