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Described by the BBC as "the physicist behind net zero", Myles has been studying how human activities and natural drivers contribute to changes in global climate and risks of extreme weather since the early 1990s. In 2010 he was awarded the Appleton Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics “for his important contributions to the detection and attribution of human influence on climate and quantifying uncertainty in climate predictions." At a conference in 2005, Myles first proposed the concept of a global carbon budget: peak warming is largely determined by the total amount of carbon dioxide we release into the atmosphere, not the rate of emissions or the atmospheric concentration in any given year. Prompted by this finding, he has long been a proponent of fossil fuel producers taking responsibility for cleaning up after the products they sell, rather than placing the onus on powerless consumers: https://go.ted.com/mylesallen. Myles is a Professor of Geosystem Science in the Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment and the Department of Physics, University of Oxford, and Director of the Oxford Net Zero initiative.