At our regular lunch meeting our guest speaker is Prof Michael Asten with the topic of Natural climate cycles – what they tell us of global temperature changes, human advancement and human misery.

Michael Asten was Professor of geophysics, now retired from School of Earth-Atmosphere-Environment, Monash University.  Prior to that he was a Senior Principal in BHP with 18 years experience in world-wide programs for the search for new mineral resources.  He is a past-President of the Australian Society of Exploration Geophysics, has published 224 scientific papers and has various research awards from the Australian SEG, BHP and CSIRO for innovations.  He has been researching for nine years the role of natural cycles in global climate change – the subject of nine papers at international conferences. He served as an Expert Reviewer for the IPCC AR6 on climate-change.