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About a year ago I heard a well known climate scientist [John Abraham] say he’d give An Inconvenient Truth 90% for accuracy – a very high grade in anyone’s league, especially when it comes to complex science.

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In the context of Thursday, during the question time, I had written my question on a card for the Professor: “Was Al Gore correct in Inconvenient Truth?”

Doubtless, this is a common question to a Climate Scientist, and to my recollection, the Professor’s answer was brisk and with no hesitation: “Probably 90% accurate”, he said, relating a couple of areas where Mr. Gore’s analysis might have been a bit off target.

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The back story of my dream perhaps came a few hours earlier when I, along with perhaps 70 others, men and women, participated in a powerful one and a half hours with world climate expert Professor John Abraham of the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul. He started his talk with a satellite photo of the world, specifically Africa; he ended his presentation with photos of his two daughters, age four and five, who are, he said, the reason he’s devoting his professional life to the crisis of climate change. He is, after all, making their future, and that of their descendants. Africa in particular, and the coming generations will reap the consequences of human activity, especially during the period of the Industrial Revolution.

University of St. Thomas : School of Engineering : John P. Abraham, Ph.D.

Ph.D. 2002, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota
M.S. 1999, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota
B.S. 1997, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota

Career

John has worked on a variety of problems in the thermal-fluid sciences area.  His research includes the design and development of medical devices and the assessment of their safety. He has also worked on developing clean power sources for the developing world.  Among his research projects are the construction of a solar-power lighting system in Uganda and the development of specialized wind turbines which can provide electrical power to cellular communication towers.  He has written approximately 70 journal publications, book chapters and patents and he has given more than 70 conference presentations.

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