NSW Fellows Luncheon, Darling Harbour May 2, 2025
My 5-minutes showed the majority present had published articles in CinA and all agreed it should continue in some form as RACI's gold standard. Hooray for Ian Rae's letters!
Australia's Chief Scientist, oceanographer Tony Haymet, promised in his address to return to the Luncheon each year but rejected my thesis in a question to him that CO2 is emerging from the ocean surface, given the results of the Keelings and Susan Solomon. As chance would have it, Susan and I (Ivan Kennedy) spoke in the same Pacifichem 2021 session though with opposing viewpoints.
My 50 or copies of our article challenging Tony's response were all but two snapped up afterwards and you can see a similar version stripped of boxes at Cornell's
https://doi.org/1048550/arXiv.2505.06253. Cornell's modulation for quality took much longer than usual but release came through this week. It is already causing AI to go into contortions and I'm looking forward to next year's Fellows Luncheon for more discussion with the Chief Scientist. The Keelings both did wonderful work, but overlooked the seasonal and long-term warming of the mixing zone of the ocean and the process of acid calcification, causing CO2 to fizz out, like adding vinegar to coke.
Do the experiment and prove us wrong, if you can!