David Karoly
tlambert | September 29, 2010David Karoly is giving a free talk on climate change in Sydney on 11 October. Details:
Climate change: Do you want the good news or the bad news?
Professor David Karoly will separate the truth from the spin on climate change, telling it how it is.
There are fascinating good-news stories about real world solutions that have already been implemented, globally, in Australia and in other countries.
But how far do we have to go to avoid dangerous climate change? What is Australia's fair contribution to a global response on climate change? How bad might climate change get if we decide to continue…
tlambert | June 14, 2009Professor David Karoly of the University of Melbourne's School of Earth Sciences is an expert on climate change, so like every other scientist who has read Ian Plimer's error-filled book, he was appalled at how bad it was. His review:
Now let me address some of the major scientific flaws in Plimer's arguments. He claims 'it is not possible to ascribe a carbon dioxide increase to human activity' and 'volcanoes produce more CO2 than the world's cars and industries combined'. Both are wrong. Burning fossil fuels produces carbon dioxide enriched with carbon isotope C12and reduced C13 and…
tlambert | May 4, 2009The Australian has a printed a response by Plimer to some of the criticism he has received. Plimer opens with:
In Heaven and Earth - Global Warming: The Missing Science, I predicted that the critics would play the man and not discuss the science.
Then he proceeds to play the man and not the ball, calling his critics "arrogant pompous scientists", saying that they lack "common sense" and the scientists who criticised him on Lateline were merely "an expert on gravity, a biologist and one who produces computer models".
And how does he respond to the numerous specific criticisms of all the…