Extreme weather around the world focuses minds in Whitehall ahead of COP26 – Channel 4 News

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The Saudis, the Russians and others are not willing to agree to a phase out of coal as one of the outcomes of the COP, so we are still fighting that battle. So, what we are seeing in Naples is a small leap for man, and not the giant leap […]

Will flood exercises better prepare us? – Sky News – 12 Sep 16

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            Sky News: The Environment agency is beginning to prepare for the winter months ahead, they are training with new barriers, pumps, vehicles and drones to test their flood responses. Well, joining me now is the Chairman of Third Generation Environmentalism, Tom Burke […..] Will flood […]

Why are we so bad at responding to floods? – Tom Burke – LBC – 28 Dec 15

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                LBC: Lets speak to Tom Burke, he’s an environmentalist, and a former government adviser on the environment. Good morning Tom. Do you think that the government was warned about this or not? Tom Burke: Well I think that its very interesting that the Prime […]

WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THE FLOODS?

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      The question the government really needs to answer is why have we had so many unprecedented events in so short a space of time. A month’s rain fell in a day. This was the third time in ten years that this region was hit by ‘unprecedented’ rain […]

Discussing Climate Change on LBC Radio – 13th February 2014

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  Discussing climate change on LBC Radio with Nick Ferrari on 13th February 2014 “The climate is changing because we are putting greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, in some places that will lead to warming, in some places it will lead to drying and in some place it will lead […]