People working on climate or energy give Carbon Brief a sense of their lives beyond the nine-to-five…
Chris Rapley is a professor of climate science at University College London. From 1998 to 2007, he was director of the British Antarctic Survey and from 2007 to 2010 he was director of the Science Museum in London. He is the co-author of the play and book, 2071 – The World We’ll Leave Our Grandchildren.
Professor Chris Rapley. Credit: UCL.
Book
George Orwell’s 1984.
Place
Acajou – a restaurant in Papeete, Tahiti.
Film
Monty Python’s Life of Brian.
Activity
Photography.
Music
It evolves all the time: The Calling, Drenge, Wolf Alice and PJ Harvey are currently played a lot.
Food
My wife’s prawns and okra on rice.
TV
Anything by BBC’s Adam Curtis. For example, The Century of the Self, more recently Humans on Channel 4.
Role model
There have been many. It’s difficult to pick one. I’ll go for RLF Boyd, director of the space science lab where I did my PhD.
Luxury
Keeping my 1989 Toyota MR2 on the road.
Essential
Personal = iPhone. Professional = my new MacBook.
Main image: The English singer, musician, poet and songwriter PJ Harvey performs a live concert at the Danish outdoor festival Roskilde Festival 2011. Denmark 30/06 2011. © Gonzales Photo/Christian Hjorth/The Hell Gate/Corbis.
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Chris Rapley on his beloved 1989 Toyota MR2, RLF Boyd and George Orwell's 1984... #CarbonBriefly
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Chris Rapley gives us a sense of his life beyond the nine-to-five... #CarbonBriefly