About climate change and mankind's influence on it Most alarmists reduce the issue of manmade climate down to whether humans affect climate. That is not the main issue. Of course humans can affect the climate. The real issues are not whether “human influence on global climate is controversial�. The real issues are: (1) What is the quantitative relationship between climate and CO2 concentration? (2) What are the impacts of climate change on humanity? (3) If the claims of impacts by the alarmist prove to be correct, what can we do about it, while still providing the people of the world with energy? (4) As the US unilaterally deprives itself of fossil energy, is it harming itself economically while China and other developing nations expand their use of coal? Donald Rapp
Brief Summary about Donald Rapp: Fifty years of post-doctoral experience. A true generalist. Fifty percent scientist and 50% engineer. Worked on an extremely wide variety of technical problems over the years and has broad knowledge of things technical. Solid grounding in chemistry and physics and did fundamental work in these sciences for many years. In the second half of his career he worked on more applied problems, particularly in space technology and space mission design. He is an expert in requirements, architectures and transportation systems for space missions, with particular emphasis on impact of in situ resource utilization, and water resources. He has surveyed the wide field of global climate change energy and is familiar with the entire literature of climatology. He is known throughout the NASA community for his abilities to plan, organize and lead studies of broad technical systems. Education: B.S. Chemical Engineering, Cooper Union, 1955 M.S. Chemical Engineering, Princeton, 1956 Graduate study, California Institute of Technology, 1957 Ph.D. Chemical Physics, University of California (Berkeley) - January, 1960
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Experience: 2008-2009 Research Professor, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California 2003-2009, JPL Consultant 1979-2002, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA; Senior Research Scientist and Division Chief Technologist, Mechanical Systems Engineering and Research Division; Retired February, 2002 1969-1981, University of Texas at Dallas: 1981 Resigned 1979-1981 On Leave of Absence while at JPL 1973-1979 Full Professor of Physics and Environmental Engineering 1969-1973, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Physics 1965-1969, Polytechnic Institute of New York: Associate Professor of Chemistry 1959-1965, Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory: Senior Staff Scientist
Books by Donald Rapp:
Quantum Mechanics by Donald Rapp 1971 Hardcover, 672 pages, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, ISBN 0030812941 (0-03-081294-1) Statistical Mechanics by Donald Rapp 1972 Hardcover, 330 pages, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, ISBN 0030856531 (0-03-085653-1)
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Statistical Mechanics - Reissue 2012 at amazon.com
Solar Energy by Donald Rapp 1981 Hardcover, 516 pages, PrenticeHall, ISBN 0138222134 (0-13822213-4) Human Missions to Mars: Enabling Technologies for Exploring the Red Planet by Donald Rapp, hardback, 520 pages, October, 2007 ISBN: 978-3540-72938-9
Assessing Climate Change – Temperatures, Solar Radiation and Heat Balance Series: Springer Praxis Books – Environmental Sciences
by Donald Rapp, hardback, 410 pages, March 2008 ISBN: 978-3540-76586-8
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Ice Ages and Interglacials by Donald Rapp
Use of Extraterrestrial Resources for Human Space Missions to Moon or Mars (Springer Praxis Books / Astronautical Engineering)
The Climate Debate by Donald Rapp, 2012
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