prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and as the government’s special representative for climate change, recently launched a research initiative, the Centre for Climate Repair, at Cambridge University. “We’re now at about 1.1, 1.2 Celsius above pre-industrial levels,” King told me over the phone one day. “And the conclusion is that this is already too much. The Arctic sea ice, for example, has been melting far more rapidly than was predicted.
