David Karoly
{{short description|Australian atmospheric scientist (born 1955)}}
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University of Reading
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David John Karoly {{post-nominals|country=AUS|FAA}} (born 1955) is an Australian atmospheric scientist, currently based at CSIRO.
Education and academic career
In the early 1970s David Karoly enrolled in applied mathematics at Monash University, Melbourne, but later became interested in meteorology.[http://www.theage.com.au/environment/coming-down-to-earth-20080815-3wdz.html Adam Morton: Coming down to earth], in The Age, 16 August 2008 In 1980 he was awarded a doctorate in meteorology from the University of Reading in Reading, England.[http://www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/researcher/person67077.html University of Melbourne: Find and expert], retrieved 27 June 2011
After returning to Australia, from 1995 to 2000 Karoly became Director of the Cooperative Research Centre for Southern Hemisphere Meteorology at Monash University. Between 2003 and 2007 he was Professor of Meteorology in the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma (OU). In May 2007 he joined the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne as a Federation Professor. In 2017 he became Leader of the Earth Systems and Climate Change Hub in the Australian Government's National Environmental Science Program.
Contributions
He is an expert in climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion, and climate variations due to the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO).[http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/david-karoly-27436.html ABC: The Drum], retrieved 27 June 2011
Karoly has served as a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group 2 (on societal impacts) and he is a member of the faculty of the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne. His work, along with that of the many other lead authors and review editors, contributed to the award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, which was won jointly by the IPCC and Al Gore.[http://research.science.unimelb.edu.au/profile/eminent/karoly University of Melbourne: Profile] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110630043340/http://research.science.unimelb.edu.au/profile/eminent/karoly |date=2011-06-30 }}, retrieved 27 June 2011 He is member of the board of the Climate Change Authority.{{cite web |url=http://www.climatechange.gov.au/minister/greg-combet/2012/media-releases/June/MR-149-12.aspx |title=Strong Board appointed for Climate Change Authority |author=Greg Combet |date=21 June 2012 |work=Media Release |publisher=Australian Government |accessdate=20 September 2012 }}
David Karoly as communicator
In the Australian scene, Karoly is credited with standing up to Alan Jones, a conservative and climate change denying Sydney radio commentator with the largest daily audience in that city of ca.150,000.{{citation needed|date=June 2022}}
In doing so Karoly, originally a sceptic (1980), has earned the reputation of being a climate scientist communicator with the ability to explain the complexities of his research to the general public. On The Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s high ranking television program QndA wherein audience members can ask direct questions of experts, Karoly claimed his authority by stating in regard to his nemesis, “I am a climate scientist and Alan Jones is wrong.” {{cite web |title=Alan Jones is wrong |date=17 June 2019 |url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/alan-jones-is-wrong-climate-scientist-tells-a-politician-free-q-and-a-20190618-p51yor.html |publisher=Sydney Morning Herald |accessdate=5 January 2020}}{{cite web |title=Alan Jones is wrong |url=https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/climate-change/alan-jones-is-wrong-radio-commentator-slammed-over-climate-change-remarks-on-qa-science-panel/news-story/765c558bb3a71c33a423f3458daff572 |website=news.com.au |publisher=News Limited}}
Karoly pointed out that one hundred years ago carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was 280 parts per million whereas now it is 400 parts per million, an increase of 40% which he asserted was unquestionably caused by human activity. He also admonished Australians for producing 1.5% of the world's greenhouse gases when they were only 0.3% of the world's population.
On the population issue Karoly sounded a warning, saying, "climate scientists in Europe have said that the long-term sustainable population of people on the Earth is about 1 billion people in 2100 – not the foreshadowed United Nations population estimates of about 10 to 12 billion people. That’s not good news."{{cite web |title=QandA |url=https://www.abc.net.au/qanda/2019-17-06/11191192 |website=abc.net.au |date=17 June 2019 |publisher=ABC -Australian Broadcasting Commission |accessdate=20 June 2019}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.themonthly.com.au/topic/david-karoly David Karoly on SlowTV] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013192113/http://www.themonthly.com.au/topic/david-karoly |date=13 October 2012 }}
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Category:Australian meteorologists
Category:Australian climatologists
Category:Alumni of the University of Reading
Category:Monash University alumni
Category:Academic staff of the University of Melbourne
Category:University of Oklahoma faculty