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John Abbot
Research Fellow
Dr John Abbot has a commitment to lifelong learning and is undertaking his second PhD as part of the IPA-University of Queensland Science, Law and Environment Research Program. John's first PhD was in chemistry from McGill University in Canada. John also has Law Degrees and a Master of Biotechnology from the University of Queensland and an MBA from Deakin University. Most of his more than 100 research papers (in international peer-reviewed scientific journals) were published when he worked as a chemist in the petroleum, sugar, pulp and paper industries.
Related publications
Would you swap climate change for acid rain?
‘Climate change is happening so quickly that mankind may need to pump sulfur into the atmosphere to survive', argued Tim Flannery, 2007 Australian of the Year, in May. Flannery has suggested the sulfur be dispersed by jet fuel as a last...