Mark Walport Quotes
Clearly, climate change is an extremely important threat to us.
Walport, Mark. Interview by Roger Harrabin. BBC News, BBC, 18 Apr. 2013.
This was his last House debate and whereas almost all scientists had agreed that climate change was a serious challenge to the nation, an ideologically driven majority of his Republican Party denied that that there was any climate change that was different from the usual vicissitudes of nature, he tried to persuade his anti-scientific, conservative colleagues to face reality.
Sir Mark Jeremy Walport FRS FRCP FRCPath FMedSci FRSE is an English medical scientist and was the Government Chief Scientific Adviser in the United Kingdom from 2013 to 2017 and Chief Executive of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) from 2017 to 2020.