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By Sean Martin
Well respected Australian scientist Jennifer Marohasy says global temperatures would have still risen
without the industrial revolution – essentially dismissing the claim that man is responsible for climate
change.
Most scientists will say climate change is caused by an increase of CO2 being ploughed into the
atmosphere thanks to the industrial revolution.
But Dr Marohasy along with fellow scientist Dr John Abbot state this assumption is based on a model
which was decided almost 120 years ago.
That model, mustered up by Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius who is considered one of the
godfathers of physical chemistry, claimed carbon dioxide absorbs infrared radiation.
While the fact that carbon dioxide absorbs infrared radiation is not disputed, what Dr Maloney and co
argue is that it is not correlated correctly to a heating globe.
The scientists add little work has been done in the following century to update this model.
But to correctly analyse the effect of CO2 in the atmosphere, they began collecting data which offered
ways to measure temperatures over the last 2,000 years such as tree rings and coral cores.
Dr Marohasy and Dr Abbot published a paper in the journal GeoResJ outlining their study of climate
change using neural network technology.
The computer predicted temperatures which almost exactly match what global temperatures have been,
even if there was not an industrial revolution.
They also found the world was warmer during the Medieval times.
The scientists says global warming is a natural phenomenon which heats the globe in cycles – much
like how Ice Ages have cooled Earth throughout history.
In reference to her study published in GeoResJ, Dr Marohasy writes on her blog: “The
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates warming of approximately 1°C, but
attributes this all to industrialisation.”
“Through this denial, leaders from within this much-revered community can claim that there is
something unusual about current temperatures: that we have catastrophic global warming from
industrialisation.”
Dr Marohasy, whose long list of credentials include setting up The Climate Modelling Laboratory and
director of the Australian Environment Foundation until 2008, concludes: “The science is far from
settled.”