Here's the first I'm adding to the blog, from story in The Guardian. Please feel free to add yours.
"Leggett began to worry about global warming when he was working as a research geologist at London's Imperial College in the Eighties, including doing work funded by oil giants such as BP and Shell. 'That's what led me to early concern about global warming: simply studying the ancient climate system from the bottom up over really long time periods. I started thinking, we're putting all this stuff - carbon from fossil fuels - into the atmosphere in a geological nanosecond. We are forcing the temperature up with no time for ecosystems to adapt.' When the first climate models were published, Leggett left academia and went to work for Greenpeace for a decade, before leaving to set up Solarcentury. Frustrated with empty government promises, he - like other businesses - wanted to do something to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, before it was too late: 'Climate change, that's our raison d'etre.' "
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