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Climate change film: Sir John Houghton
Sir John Houghton FRS CBE is the co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) working group. He was professor in atmospheric physics at the University of Oxford, former Chief Executive at the Met Office and founder of the Hadley Centre which provides a focus in the UK for the scientific issues associated with climate change.
‘The climate at the moment is changing faster than it's changed for 10,000 years. Why? Because human activities are so large now, because there's so many of us, it's really starting to change the climate in a big way.
‘I was privileged to chair the science assessment for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Thousands of scientists from all around the world were involved. The world's scientific community is not in any doubt that it's really happening and they're really pressing for action of an urgent kind to be taken now.
‘There's a great deal we can do, the most important thing to do is to get on with it.’
In 2007, Sir John Houghton was jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the IPCC, with former US Vice-President Al Gore, who produced climate documentary An Inconvenient Truth.
