From 1986 to 1987 David worked as research student at Oxford University's Department of Atmospheric Physics, specifically working on the ozone hole and global warming.

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Atmospheric physics is, of course, notoriously complex.

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Similarly sobering conclusions are reached in the second paper, by Tim Lenton of the University of East Anglia and Naomi Vaughan of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, and published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions.

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