Macquarie Professor Key In Climate Change Talks In Copenhagen

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Scientist, Explorer, Author Tim Flannery Among Experts At International Conference

A professor at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, is one of the key figures in the 15th United Nations Conference on Climate Change, which kicked off Monday in Copenhagen, Denmark, and concludes Dec. 18.

Tim Flannery, Australian scientist, author, climate change expert and professor at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.

Dr. Tim Flannery, a professor of environmental and life sciences at Macquarie and an alumnus of Monash University, is chairman of the Copenhagen Climate Council, a group of the world’s top business leaders and leading scientists working to ensure support and assistance to global decision makers when agreeing on a new climate treaty.

In the above video, Dr. Tim Flannery talks about what young people can do to reduce negative environmental impacts.

In the early days of the conference, Flannery is addressing the stolen emails controversy also known as “ClimateGate” that has put into question the credibility of mainstream science. He set out as additional proof of global warming new data from the UN’s World Meteorological Organization showing 2000-2009 as the warmest decade on record since 1850.

This week, he told several media organizations: “A central plank of the climate skeptics’ creed has been that the Earth has been cooling since 1998,” he said. “They have misled many, and damaged public policy as a result. Here is the definitive proof that they are wrong.”

Flannery is one of Australia’s leading thinkers and writers whose books include definitive ecological histories of Australia and North America. Flannery is also familiar to Documentary Channel viewers as a writer/presenter on numerous groundbreaking series of the past 10 years. In 2007, he was named “Australian of the Year” for his work helping millions of Australians better appreciate and understand the environment.

Flannery has written numerous books on the topic, most recently, “Now Or Never: Why We Need To Act Now To Achieve A Sustainable Future.”

“Unfortunately the warming trend continues,” Flannery stated, “and will continue as long as greenhouse gas concentrations continue to grow.”