Ben McNeil

Senior Fellow

Climate Change Research Centre

University of New South Wales

Sydney, Australia

Ph: 02 9385 7068

Fax: 02 9385 7123

Latest

• June 16, 2008: Opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald today about recent calls, particularly by the shadow treasurer Malcolm Turnbull in the paper last week, to not include a carbon price within the transport sector of the economy. Full piece here.

• Latest Interview: Commentary & Analysis on the Interim Report by Ross Garnaut on the Economics of Climate Change on Sky News Australia.

• April 23, 2008: Climate Change Research Centre Lecture Series with Dr Michael Molitor title 'Climate Change: Show Me the Money?". Interview from UNSW youtube community.

• April 22, 2008: Interview for the National Emissions Trading Conference in Sydney on May 29, 2008 (with some nice gaffes :))

• Dec 5-15, 2007: Attended UN climate change conference at Bali Indonesia. Part of the scientific delegation presenting the Bali declaration from scientists highlighting the first time on a large scale the optimal greenhouse gas targets advocated by over 220 of the worlds most influential climate scientists in order to avoid dangerous climate change.

• November 22, 2007: I was recently elected to represent young scientists in the Federation of Australian Science and Technological Societies which represents over 60 000 working scientists and technologists.

• November 7, 2007: I was awarded an Australian Research Council Queen Elizabeth II fellowship over five years to understand how and why oceanic variability changes atmospheric concentrations. Press release from UNSW here.

• October 25, 2007: Anti-Kyoto Protocol Media: An article in Nature argues that the next round of UNFCCC negotiations should scrap the Kyoto Protocol and start a fresh. Although I agree that policies after the first commitment period should be reformed for the better, that doesn't mean completely abolishing all of the particularly good mechanims that are contained within the Kyoto Protocol. My statement for Australian Science Media Centre is here, ABC news coverage here and other coverage in the UK's Guardian newspaper here.

• September 12, 2007: ABC Radio, Australia Talks: Debate on Nuclear Power

• July 13, 2007: Latest Op-ed in the Sydney Morning Herald, commenting on how propagating false scientific uncertainty will leave no room for funding climate change solutions. Full link here or pdf here.

• July 1, 2007: Presentation to the Prime Minister and Cabinet during the The Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council – Seventeenth Meeting

Download my presentation - here

• June 1, 2007: Response to the Prime Minister's Carbon Emissions Trading Taskforce Report - Full Response via Australian Science Media Centre

Dr Ben McNeil is Senior Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales' Climate Change Research Centre: "The taskforce recommends the Australian government to set a post-2012 target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, which is critical for the effectiveness of a carbon emissions trading scheme. The government set target is therefore the primary determining factor in how effective the scheme will be. If the government target is too weak then a carbon emissions trading scheme will be a wasted exercise in significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions for the medium to long term."

• May 17, 2007: Vast Antarctic ice melt - Full Story with Commentary

A MASSIVE melting of ice in Antarctica - until now relatively unaffected by climate change - has been revealed by US scientists.