Dr Pittock touches on the fallacies of the Climate Change debate, those ideas that need not be explored further due to scientific evidence proving them redundant, as well as more complex and timely issues such as Green House Gas emissions and trading schemes. Dr Pittock used historical figures and statistics to highlight the devastating effects climate change is already having on society as well as forecasts to show the possible directions in which planet earth is heading.

Dr Barrie Pittock has over 250 scientific publications to his credit and has been on the editorial board of several scientific journals. Although he retired in 1999, Dr Pittock remains on the editorial board of the journal Climate Change. He is a respected author, academic, and has spent many years working for the the CSIRO, where he founded the CSIRO Climate Impact Group.

Recorded at the Bendigo Campus of La Trobe University, 4th August 2009.

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