Latest Martin Rees Quotes from Interviews

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• I think all countries need to aim to cut the CO2 emissions per person, taking account of externalities like imports and exports.

  Martin Rees

  Country, Cutting, Thinking

  "Lord Martin Rees, eminent British scientist". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. March 28, 2010.

• The politics is far harder than the science. And even if we accept the science we have a big issue of how to deal with it.

  Martin Rees

  Issues, Accepting, Bigs

  "Lord Martin Rees, eminent British scientist". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. March 28, 2010.

• One of the computer models for a four degree temperature rise would give rise to a 10 degree temperature rise in Africa. And bear in mind also that in the depth of an ice age the mean temperature drop compared to the present was five degrees.

  Martin Rees

  Mean, Ice, Giving

  "Lord Martin Rees, eminent British scientist". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. March 28, 2010.

• I'm not a specialist in the science but I have followed it fairly closely and it seems to me that there is among the experts a clear consensus that potential climate change is something to worry about.

  Martin Rees

  Worry, Climate, Experts

  "Lord Martin Rees, eminent British scientist". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. March 28, 2010.

• The important point there is that when people talk about a mean temperature rise of say two, three or four degrees that's a sort of global average which really is a signature of large scale change in climatic patterns.

  Martin Rees

  Mean, Two, Average

  "Lord Martin Rees, eminent British scientist". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. March 28, 2010.

• The carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere is measured. It's uncontroversial. It's going up. We know that has a tendency to warm the atmosphere and we should be worried about that.

  Martin Rees

  Atmosphere, Worried, Carbon Dioxide

  "Lord Martin Rees, Eminent British Scientist". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. March 28, 2010.