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David King

August 2022

  • Sir David King

    Boris Johnson told to tackle rising energy bills to avoid ‘extreme suffering’ this winter

    Ex-chief scientist David King says outgoing PM must deliver fiscal policies to support poorer people

March 2022

  • The world’s whale population is only 5% of what it was estimated to be 400 years ago

    The squit and the whale: can artificial faeces revive the ocean ecosystem?

    A scientific experiment hopes to restore vital nutrients to the ocean by using fake excrement that would once have been produced by the endangered mammal

November 2020

  • Sir David King

    Independent Sage scientists to join climate crisis battle

    Sir David King’s temporary organisation, formed in response to government’s Covid policy failings, will fight on

June 2020

  • Close-up of test tubes with pipette

    Science and politics: a complicated formula

    Letters: Prof Ravi Mahajan and Alan Walker respond to Richard Horton’s article in which he questions how scientists can stand by this government. Plus Philip Barber wonders why we are being led by science, while simultaneously disregarding it

May 2020

  • Matt Hancock at the press briefing on 15 May at which he claimed ‘Right from the start we’ve tried to throw a protective ring around our care homes.’

    A first-class analysis of Boris Johnson’s third-rate government

    Letters: Polly Toynbee’s article on Boris Johnson’s ‘floundering crew of fibbers’ prompts responses from Les Bright, Ian Arnott, Alan Walker and Valerie Bayliss
  • A medical workers holds a Covid-19 test sample

    New coronavirus outbreaks 'inevitable without robust UK strategy'

    Scientists warn of rolling lockdowns if government fails to reconsider its approach
  • Sir David King

    Rival Sage group says Covid-19 policy must be clarified

    Government must state whether it intends to suppress or to manage infections, says group set up by Sir David King

April 2020

  • Crowds at the Cheltenham festival

    Boris Johnson reacted too slowly to Covid-19, says former scientific adviser

    Sir David King shocked that Cheltenham festival was allowed during coronavirus outbreak

June 2019

  • Prof David King

    Ex-chief scientist fears for UK climate plan if Boris Johnson is PM

    Prof David King says would-be PM oversaw ‘devastating’ cuts in efforts to tackle crisis

June 2017

  • Baby boy (6-9 months) sleeping in car seat<br>GettyImages-200498045-001

    Air pollution more harmful to children in cars than outside, warns top scientist

  • A child sitting in a backseat and looking through the window against rear of a lorry in the background

    Smoking in cars is banned. But children still inhale toxic fumes in backseats

    David King

November 2014

  • Sir David King, special representative for climate change

    US-China deal makes international carbon emissions pact 'very likely', says David King

    Landmark deal between world’s two biggest emitters makes an international agreement on climate change next year much more likely, says Foreign Office climate adviser

January 2014

  • Sir David King

    Oil price volatility undermines economic growth, says Sir David King

  • Chertsey, Surry, floods and swans

    David Cameron 'very much suspects' climate change is behind recent storms

December 2011

  • david king scientist

    Kyoto was built to fail. It is time the world abandoned it

    Juliette Jowit

    Juliette Jowit: The old protocol required 194 nations to agree one set of targets. After the Durban climate conference, the best way forward is for countries to go it alone

July 2011

  • Sir David King, former chief scientific advisor to the government

    Sir David King: world should abandon Kyoto protocol on climate change

    UK's former chief scientist calls instead for a system where each nation is awarded a carbon emissions quota based on population

February 2010

  • Professor Sir David King

    David King admits to speculation over source of climate science emails

    Former government adviser backs away from sensational claims over involvement of foreign intelligence or wealthy lobbyists

October 2009

  • The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

    2000 to 2009: reviews of the decade
    Review of the decade: Environmental milestones of the noughties

    Environment decade: Ten years ago, Kyoto was on the rocks; Bush ruled the roost, and the New Orleans levee and Antarctic ice sheet were still intact. As the decade draws to a close, we look back on the biggest environmental stories milestones of the noughties

March 2009

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    Economic crisis gives us a chance of repairing climate damage

    Terry Barker and David King

    Terry Barker and David King: Large-scale investment to fix global finances is an opportunity to move quickly to a low-carbon economy

December 2008

  • Against the runway: It would soon be a white elephant

    David King

    David King: Despite the short-term attractions, a third runway is very likely to become a stranded asset

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