Philip Blakeley began his career in 1978 at The Welding Institute in Cambridge, United Kingdom where he stayed until 1984 and developed the welding conditions required for such tasks as attaching the blades of jet engines for Rolls Royce and sealing thick copper containers used to store nuclear waste.

Having enjoyed the application of physics to solve real world problems, Philip then became an independent consultant which led him to work for many companies throughout the world. This included Caterpillar and ALCOA in the United States, which involved the treatment of metal surfaces; Shell, and the detection of corrosion on sub-sea structures and pipelines; Statoil, and the verification of welded structures on offshore platforms; and Anglian Water, and the detection of cryptosporidium in water supplies.

More recently, Philip has assisted in the design of sea wave turbines - which have been successfully deployed for many years - to provide electricity to the Isle of Islay in Scotland, and contributed to the design and operation of equipment used to measure and analyze methane concentrations in sea water as deep as 3 kilometers (9,842 feet).

Along with many other scientists, Philip has become concerned about the current belief amongst many people that CO2 is responsible for global warming, and has attempted to show that this is an inaccurate assumption in his book, CO2 & Net Zero.