Professor Martin Manning ONZM

Biography

Spent more than forty years moving from theoretical physics and the many body problem in quantum mechanics to atmospheric science and then climate science more generally. Had 15 years of experience in the IPCC process that produces major reports on climate change and was on its senior management team when we won the Nobel Peace prize with Al Gore in 2007. Established the interdisciplinary Climate Change Research Institute at Victoria University and still working on: 1) local adaptation strategies for dealing with sea level rise; 2) working out why methane is increasing and threatening the 2C target for climate policy; 3) leading reseach on carbon-14 in carbon monoxide as a tracer for the atmospheric cleansing process that removes methane and many other gases.

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