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Members of the Media, The AGU pleased to announce the opening of the new Climate Q & A Service. Any and all media questions about climate science can be directed to this service where over 700 PhD-trained climate scientists have volunteered to provide answers. The expertise of these scientists spans the spectrum of climate science, from atmospheric chemistry to oceanography to ecology to paleoclimate.
This service is an extension of last year's pilot program which was offered during the Copenhagen Climate Negotiations 7-18 December, 2009. The success of that pilot has motivated the AGU and it's cadré of climate scientists to commit to a three month Climate Q & A Service targeting this year's climate negotiations in Cancun (29 Nov. - 10 Dec. 2010).
The scientists have signed up for two-hour time slots, with 3-5 scientists in each time slot representing different areas of climate science expertise. During their designated two-hour shift, these scientists will staff a shared climate science email in-box and collaborate with each other to answer questions in a timely manner. Questions and answers will be archived by AGU for post-project analysis and may be made available to the public at a future date. Please note that the scope of this project is limited to the findings of climate science and to the web-facilitated email format. AGU explicitly requests participating scientists not to comment on policy in this forum, and non-science questions will be returned to senders. See examples in sidebar link for Science vs. Non-Science Questions. All emailed responses are the full responsibility of the sending scientist and do not reflect any position of AGU. Follow-up interviews and discussions are not considered to be part of this project. To submit a science question, email: questions@agu.emailcenterpro.com with the following information:
We’re excited about the service and this novel forum for scientist/journalist interaction, and we will be soliciting feedback from participating media members after the service is offline. In the meantime, to reach one of the organizers, email: organizers@agu.emailcenterpro.com.
Sincerely, AGU Climate Science Q&A Team |