Fears of Freezing: The 1970s are calling; They want their climate policies back

Will Howard
Dr. Will Howard is a research scientist at the University of Melbourne School of Earth Sciences, where he heads up the Sedimentary Basin Management Initiative. He is a visiting fellow at Australian National University Research School of Earth Sciences and the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania and is serving as the Deputy Chair of the Australian National Committee for Antarctic Research. Dr. Howard has a Ph.D in Geological Sciences from Brown University in the US. He was Postdoctoral Fellow at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, a lecturer in oceanography at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole USA, a researcher at the Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre in Hobart, and Assistant Director, Science, at the Office of the Chief Scientist in Canberra. His current work is focused on developing an integrated approach to understanding and managing sedimentary basins and particularly their porespace. Competing uses of basins' subsurface spaces are crucial to agricultural productivity, energy, water and waste management, and to maintenance of ecosystems. He researches marine climate change, with emphasis on ocean acidification and its impacts on the past, current, and future ocean. He has focused on the ocean carbon cycle and responses of marine ecosystems to climate change, as well as insights into climate change from ocean sediment records as baselines for pre-industrial conditions and for understanding the impacts of future climate change.

Headline from The Melbourne, Feb. 18, 1979.

Fears of Freezing: The 1970s are calling; They want their climate policies back

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A top economic advisor to the Australian Government recently suggested in an op-ed published by the national daily The Australian that one scenario we should be prepared for is global cooling due to a possible change in solar activity. Certain reports in the U.S. media have also suggested cooling may already be upon us because […]

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