Prof Karoly tells it like it is, including the subtleties and intricacies

David Karoly was the first fellow to help me grasp the subtleties and intricacies of human carbon dioxide emissions.

Prof David Karoly.

Professor Karoly, who spoke in Shepparton in 2011, is an internationally recognised expert in climate change and climate variability, including greenhouse climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion and interannual climate variations due to El Niño-Southern Oscillation.

He was heavily involved in preparation of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released in 2007, in several different roles.

The professor is a member of the new Climate Change Authority in Australia and is also a member of the Science Advisory Panel to the Australian Climate Commission, the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists, and the Joint Scientific Committee, which provides oversight of the World Climate Research Programme.

Professor Karoly joined the University of Melbourne’s School of Earth Sciences in May 2007 as an ARC Federation Fellow funded by the Australian government. 

It he who explained in 2011 that although carbon dioxide emissions are natural, the comparatively miniscule amount the humans are contributing through burning fossils fuels is clearly sufficient to disrupt the remarkably fine balance of gases in out earth’s atmosphere.

And now the Environmental News Network even helps a little more this latest story headed: “Getting a better handle on CO2, NASA will help!”

With fossil fuels being the villain in this dilemma, the ENN story tells us that: “… our use of fossil fuels is increasing exponentially, with more than half of all fossil fuels ever used by humans being consumed in the last 20 years”.