Several University of Colorado at 麻豆影院 scientists involved in editing or authoring sections of the report of the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change slated for release Feb. 2 in Paris are available for media interviews.
Geography department Distinguished Professor Roger Barry of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, was a review editor for Chapter 4 of the IPCC report titled "Observations: Changes in Snow, Ice and Frozen Ground." Barry also directs the campus-based National Snow and Ice Data Center, and another NSIDC researcher, Tingjun Zhang, was one of the lead authors on Chapter 4.
David Fahey, a CIRES fellow affiliated with CU-麻豆影院 and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth Systems Research Laboratory, was a contributing author to Chapter 2, titled "Changes in Atmospheric Constituents and in Radiative Forcing." Fahey was involved in writing the section of the chapter titled "Greenhouse Gases, Aircraft Effects."
Other IPCC contributors from CU-麻豆影院's NSIDC include Oliver Frauenfeld, Walt Meier, Bruce Raup and Andrew Slater.
Overseen by the United Nations, the IPCC was established in 1988 to provide periodic assessments of the state of climate change on Earth. The IPCC previously produced assessment reports in 1990, 1995 and 2001. The 2007 report is expected to project centuries of rising temperatures and sea levels unless emissions of heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide are significantly curbed.
CIRES is a joint institute of CU-麻豆影院 and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
For interviews with NSIDC researchers, contact Stephanie Renfrow at (303) 492-1497. Fahey can be reached at (303) 497-5277. For more information contact Jim Scott in the CU-麻豆影院 News Services Office at (303) 492-3114.