Prof Sir John Beddington said there was a "need for urgency" in tackling climate change.
Prof Beddington made his comments in the final week of his tenure as the government's chief scientific adviser.
"The most dynamic trend (in determining identity) is hyper-connectivity, " Prof Beddington told BBC News.
If these statements might suggest to some that Beddington is hostile to environmentalism, he is anything but.
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Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Prof Beddington said this account could be neglected in a number of ways.
Prof Beddington has gradually won back that money in a series of announcements of new money for science by the Treasury.
Yet the Holdren-Beddington article is based on data and studies from the Congressional EMP Commission--that warns about both natural and nuclear EMP threats.
In response the government's chief scientific adviser, Professor John Beddington, said mental capital could be likened to a bank account of the mind.
As Holdren and Beddington note, the solar maximum, and increased possibility of a great geomagnetic storm, is fast approaching, now less than a year away.
Prof Beddington's comments come at a time when "climate sceptics" have been challenging claims by scientists that the release of CO2 into the atmosphere is increasing global temperatures.
Mr Hammond said the government's chief scientific adviser Professor Sir John Beddington will be working with transport operators to see what can be done to alleviate severe winters.
The man he is replacing - Sir John Beddington - had to provide advice on Japan's Fukushima nuclear accident, Iceland's volcanic ash eruption and the spread of Ash dieback.
Prof Beddington is among those credited with having limited the cuts to the UK's research budget when the Chancellor, George Osborne, was making his first Autumn Statement in 2010.
But because the funding is directed to these specific areas, there is less money overall to fund staff and cutting-edge research outside those deemed by Prof Beddington and senior members of the research community as strategically important.
The UK government's Chief Scientific Adviser Sir John Beddington, meanwhile, has had to revise his previously optimistic assessment to include the "worst case scenario" of radiation reaching Tokyo, albeit at a level which could be protected against.
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White House Science Advisor John Holdren and Sir John Beddington, Science Advisor to British Prime Minister David Cameron, in a recent joint article "Celestial Storm Warnings" published in the New York Times, warned that a solar flare from the Sun could cause a great geomagnetic storm, with catastrophic consequences for the United States and the world.
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