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Climate Scientist and Atmospheric Researcher
About David Karoly
In 2013, David Karoly led the Australian government’s national climate assessment that first quantified how much the 2012, 2013 'Angry Summer', with its record-breaking heatwaves and bushfire conditions, was amplified by human-caused warming, attributing a 5, 10% increase in extreme heat probability directly to rising greenhouse gas concentrations. His work bridged atmospheric modeling and policy, co-developing the Southern Hemisphere’s first multi-model ensemble for regional downscaling of CMIP5 projections, a tool now embedded in CSIRO’s ACCESS system. Based at the University of Melbourne, he’s spent decades tracing teleconnections between Antarctic ozone depletion and Australian rainfall shifts, revealing how stratospheric cooling altered the Southern Annular Mode more than models initially predicted. Karoly speaks with the quiet precision of someone who’s testified before parliamentary inquiries six times, yet still adjusts his explanations mid-sentence when he sees a listener grasp the nuance, not just the headline.
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