Debunking the Skeptics

Prof Ian Enting, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
PHONE: 03 8344 1796
MOBILE: Rebecca Scott 0417 164 791
ABOUT: Previously a team leader at the CSIRO on greenhouse gas modeling, Dr Enting is one of the lead authors of CO2 and carbon cycle in the 1994 IPCC Special report on radiative forcing of climate change. He wrote the book "Twisted: the distorted mathematics of greenhouse denial"

Population Growth

Professor Roger Short, Honorary Professorial Fellow, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
PHONE: 8344 3370
MOBILE: 0405 084 911
ABOUT: Professor Short’s research interests include human population growth and global warming.

Global Impact of Climate Change

Professor David Karoly, School of Earth Sciences
PHONE: 8344 4698
MOBILE: 0433 692 863
ABOUT: Professor Karoly is an internationally recognised expert on climate change and climate variability with specialist knowledge in greenhouse climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion and inter-annual climate variations due to El Niño-Southern Oscillation. He played key roles in developing the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which was released in 2007.

Dr Peter Christoff, School of Social and Environmental Enquiry
MOBILE: 0418 339947
EMAIL: peterac@unimelb.edu.au

ABOUT: Dr Christoff teaches climate policy and politics. He has previously worked as the Assistant to the Commissioner to the Environment in Victoria and is a Board member and former Vice President of the Australian Conservation Foundation. He recently co-edited a book titled “Climate Law in Australia.”
 

Social Justice and Equity

Dr Jeremy Moss, Director of Social Justice Initiative, 
School of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Enquiry
PHONE: 8344 4051
MOBILE: 0425 753 124
ABOUT: Dr Moss's research interests include Social Justice, welfare, unemployment, climate change, equality, disability, social philosophy, personal responsibility

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY:  

** For detailed information about experts available to speak on new energy resources such
as solar, wind, bioenergy, Geothermal, New Energy and Coal go to the Energy Institute at the University of Melbourne: http://energy.unimelb.edu.au

Optimal Mix of Energy Systems

Dr Roger Dargaville, School of Earth Sciences
PHONE: 8344 7304
MOBILE: 0405 718 957
ABOUT: Dr Dargaville works in the fields of climate change, carbon cycle and energy. He works on modeling of energy systems and finding the optimal mix of energy technologies to achieve the maximum reduction in carbon emissions at the lowest cost while still meeting the growing energy demands.

Geothermal Energy
 
Professor Mike Sandiford, Director of the Melbourne Energy Institute
PHONE: 8344 7221 
MOBILE: 0400515635
ABOUT:  Professor Sandiford heads the Melbourne Energy Institute and his own research interests include Geothermal Energy, Tectonic Activity, and Thermal Crust

Nuclear Energy

Dr Martin Sevior, School of Physics
PHONE: 8344 5438
MOBILE: 0425828278
ABOUT: Dr Sevior is a member of the Experimental Particle Physics group in the School of Physics. He is an expert in the field of Nuclear Astro-Physics and performs experiments with the world's highest intensity and energy particle accelerators in Japan and at CERN in Switzerland.  He is a key contributor to the nuclear information website www.nuclearinfo.net
***Dr Sevior is available after 14 December

Rising Sea Levels and Tropical Cyclones

Associate Professor Kevin Walsh, School of Earth Sciences
PHONE: 03 8344-6523
MOBILE: 0447 394 727
ABOUT: Dr Walsh’s interests are in climate change, climate variability and tropical meteorology. He has reviewed and contributed to several IPCC reports and is the former President of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society. He is also a former deputy group leader of the Climate Impact Group, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research.

Emissions Trading Scheme

Dr Les Coleman, Department of Finance
PHONE: 8344 3696
MOBILE: 0413 901 085
ABOUT: Dr Coleman's research interests include sources, nature and management of risks with the aim of developing a comprehensive body of knowledge so that risk can be managed strategically. Dr Coleman also teaches Risk Strategies.

Carbon Emissions Reporting

Assoc Prof Matthew Pinnuck, Department of Accounting & Business Information Systems
PHONE: 8344 7539
ABOUT: Associate Professor Pinnuck’s research interest is in information economics in the fields of financial accounting and finance and his main teaching areas are in financial accounting and security valuation.  He is also the lead researcher on a cross-disciplinary research team which recently received an ARC Linkage Grant to investigate carbon emissions reporting. 

Professor Colin Ferguson, Department of Accounting & Business Information Systems
PHONE: 8344 4482
MOBILE: 0409 498 398
ABOUT: Professor Ferguson is the Chair of Business Information Systems and the Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Business and Economics. His research interests include business information systems, fraud and corporate governance, auditing and business forensics.  A Certified Practising Accountant, Professor Ferguson is part of a cross-disciplinary research team which recently received an ARC Linkage Grant to investigate carbon emissions reporting. 

Carbon Emissions and Agriculture

Dr Richard Eckard, Associate Professor/Principal Scientist, Melbourne School of Land and Environment
PHONE: 03 56 24 2219  
MOBILE: 0418389022
ABOUT: Dr Ekhard is Project Leader, Greenhouse in Agriculture and Program Leader, Victorian Climate Change Adaptation Program. His interests include: Measurement and reporting, Mitigation potential and options for agriculture, Sequestration opportunities for agriculture.

Professor Snow Barlow, Melbourne School of Land and Environment
PHONE: 8344 5008
MOBILE: 0407251574
ABOUT: Professor Barlow’s research interests include the impact of climate change on Australian agricultural systems.

China- Political and International Issues of Climate Change

Dr Pradeep Taneja, Lecturer in Asian Politics at the University of Melbourne
PHONE 83446585
MOBILE: 0413082216
ABOUT: Dr Taneja lectures in Chinese politics, political economy and international relations in the School of Social and Political Sciences