John Abraham (professor)
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Dr. John Abraham is an Associate Professor of thermal
and fluid
Sciences at the University of St. Thomas School of Engineering
, Minnesota
. His area of research includes thermodynamics
, heat transfer
, fluid flow, numerical simulation, and energy
. He has published approximately 100 papers in journals and conferences.
Abraham has received worldwide attention for a rebuttal he posted online to a talk given in 2009 by a well-known skeptic of human-caused
global warming
, Christopher Monckton
.
Abraham's presentation and the response from Monckton received world-wide attention. More recently, Abraham and a number of colleagues including Michael E. Mann submitted a document to the US Congress which rebutted nine serious errors in Christopher Monckton's May 6, 2010 testimony.
In November, 2010, Dr. Abraham (and two colleagues, Professor Scott Mandia
and Dr. Ray Weymann) launched the Climate Science Rapid Response Team
, to provide rapid, high-quality scientific information to the media and government decision makers. The intention of this group is to enable scientists to share their work directly with the general public. This effort has been covered by many media outlets. The effort has an online page for media to submit their questions.
Thermal
A thermal column is a column of rising air in the lower altitudes of the Earth's atmosphere. Thermals are created by the uneven heating of the Earth's surface from solar radiation, and are an example of convection. The sun warms the ground, which in turn warms the air directly above it...
and fluid
Fluid
In physics, a fluid is a substance that continually deforms under an applied shear stress. Fluids are a subset of the phases of matter and include liquids, gases, plasmas and, to some extent, plastic solids....
Sciences at the University of St. Thomas School of Engineering
University of St. Thomas (Minnesota)
The University of St. Thomas is a private, Catholic, liberal arts, and archdiocesan university located in St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States...
, Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
. His area of research includes thermodynamics
Thermodynamics
Thermodynamics is a physical science that studies the effects on material bodies, and on radiation in regions of space, of transfer of heat and of work done on or by the bodies or radiation...
, heat transfer
Heat transfer
Heat transfer is a discipline of thermal engineering that concerns the exchange of thermal energy from one physical system to another. Heat transfer is classified into various mechanisms, such as heat conduction, convection, thermal radiation, and phase-change transfer...
, fluid flow, numerical simulation, and energy
Energy
In physics, energy is an indirectly observed quantity. It is often understood as the ability a physical system has to do work on other physical systems...
. He has published approximately 100 papers in journals and conferences.
Abraham has received worldwide attention for a rebuttal he posted online to a talk given in 2009 by a well-known skeptic of human-caused
Global warming controversy
Global warming controversy refers to a variety of disputes, significantly more pronounced in the popular media than in the scientific literature, regarding the nature, causes, and consequences of global warming...
global warming
Global warming
Global warming refers to the rising average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans and its projected continuation. In the last 100 years, Earth's average surface temperature increased by about with about two thirds of the increase occurring over just the last three decades...
, Christopher Monckton
Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
Christopher Walter Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley is a British politician, public speaker, former newspaper editor and hereditary peer. Formerly a member of the Conservative Party, Monckton has been the Head of the Policy Unit for the UK Independence Party since November 2010. He was...
.
Abraham's presentation and the response from Monckton received world-wide attention. More recently, Abraham and a number of colleagues including Michael E. Mann submitted a document to the US Congress which rebutted nine serious errors in Christopher Monckton's May 6, 2010 testimony.
In November, 2010, Dr. Abraham (and two colleagues, Professor Scott Mandia
Scott Mandia
Scott A. Mandia is Professor of Earth and Space Sciences and Assistant Chair of the Physical Sciences Department at Suffolk County Community College, Long Island, New York, USA. He has been teaching introductory meteorology and climatology courses for 22 years. He received his M.S. – Meteorology...
and Dr. Ray Weymann) launched the Climate Science Rapid Response Team
Climate Science Rapid Response Team
The Climate Science Rapid Response Team is a service to provide accurate information on climate science in response to media and government queries, by matching members of the media and government with questions, to the working climate scientists best able to answer...
, to provide rapid, high-quality scientific information to the media and government decision makers. The intention of this group is to enable scientists to share their work directly with the general public. This effort has been covered by many media outlets. The effort has an online page for media to submit their questions.