David Evans is an Australian mathematician and engineer. Evans obtained the degree of Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the

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in 1983; and PhD in Electrical Engineering from

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in 1989. He has four other degrees.Summary Speech on Global Warming
2011 From 1999 to 2005 Evans worked in the

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. There he contributed to the development of FullCam, a fully integrated

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model for estimating and predicting all biomass, litter and

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pools in forest and agricultural systems for the Australian government.ABC TV Drum Contributor Profile
/ref> (FullCam, part of Australia's National Carbon Accounting System, received a Special Achievement in GIS award at the 2010 ESRI International User Conference). He established Goldnerds, an information service for gold investors. He also serves on the board of advisors for the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, a group founded to promote a "positive voice on environment and development issues". The Committee rejects the consensus of the scientific community on

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as "alarmist",CFACT About
/ref> and Evans has moved from what he calls a "warmist" to a "skeptic" position.

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Science Speak

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Evans, David Australian mathematicians University of Sydney alumni Living people Year of birth missing (living people)