Sir David King

According to the government's chief scientist, Sir David King, while the evidence continues to grow, what we really need to see is action to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

"Action is affordable, inaction is certainly not," said Sir David at the Greenpeace Business lecture on global warming in London.

As scientists around the world study the changes in our climate going back almost a million years, they confirm what many of us know, climate change is already here.

Sir David King, Chief Scientific Adviser to the United Kingdom and Head of the Office of Science and Technology, will deliver a speech at the next Greenpeace Business lecture. The lecture will be held at the Royal Society of Arts and will be chaired by Stephen Tindale, Executive Director of Greenpeace UK. Ithe third Greenpeace Business lecture on Tuesday 12 October 2004. The lecture will focus on the science of global warming and the need for action.