29. Interview with climate scientist Professor David Karoly (Part 1)

This week it was our absolute honour to speak with Professor David Karoly, world-renowned climate scientist and climate science communicator. David is an honorary Professor at the University of Melbourne having retired in February 2022 from CSIRO in Australia, where he was a Chief Research Scientist in the CSIRO Climate Science Centre. He is an internationally recognised expert on climate change and climate variability. Professor Karoly was the Leader of the Earth Systems and Climate Change Hub in the Australian Government’s National Environmental Science Program, based in CSIRO, from 2018 until the Hub closed at the end of June 2021. He was a member of the National Climate Science Advisory Committee during 2018-19. During 2012-2017, he was a member of the Climate Change Authority, which provides advice to the Australian government on responding to climate change, including targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. He was involved in the Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2001, 2007, 2014 and 2021 in several different roles. He is also a member of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists. He was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2019. He was awarded the 2015 Royal Society of Victoria Medal for Scientific Excellence in Earth Sciences. From 2007 to February 2018, David Karoly was Professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of Melbourne and in the A.R.C. Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science. We had such a fascinating and wide-ranging conversation with David that we’ve split our conversation across two episodes. Stay tuned for Part 2 next Tuesday! You can learn more about David here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Karoly https://www.science.org.au/profile/david-karoly https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-karoly-768a1b22/ https://www.thecitizen.org.au/articles/veteran-of-climate-wars-still-fighting-for-a-habitable-planet-and-for-science https://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/episodes/lessons-in-hyperbolic-gestures/9974284 https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/professor-david-karoly-morrison-government-climate-inaction/ Transcript: https://go.unimelb.edu.au/5p2e