Interview(with Professor Mark Maslin)

Following the spring floods in the south-west of England, in a rare interview, leading climatologist Professor Mark Maslin discusses the role of the engineer in the fight against global warming. IT´S A BRIGHT, warm, early spring afternoon and Mark Maslin is looking out of his south-facing office window across central London. We exchange pleasantries about how the sunshine is a far cry from the previous three months of unremitting rain. But we´re not just being British: Maslin is professor of climatology at University College London, and so any discussion about the weather, however cursory, is of professional interest to him.