The Climate Science Rapid Response Team is a service to provide accurate information on

climate science Climatology (from Greek , ''klima'', "place, zone"; and , '' -logia'') or climate science is the scientific study of Earth's climate, typically defined as weather conditions averaged over a period of at least 30 years. This modern field of stud ...

in response to media and government queries, by matching members of the media and government with questions, to the working climate scientists best able to answer. "Nearly all of

he participating climate scientists He or HE may refer to: Language * He (pronoun), an English pronoun * He (kana), the romanization of the Japanese kana へ * He (letter), the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets * He (Cyrillic), a letter of the Cyrillic script called ''He'' ...

are members of University faculties in departments involving some aspect of climate science or in government laboratories (e.g. NASA,

NOAA The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (abbreviated as NOAA ) is an United States scientific and regulatory agency within the United States Department of Commerce that forecasts weather, monitors oceanic and atmospheric conditio ...

), both in the US and abroad." The "matchmakers" -

John Abraham John Abraham (born 17 December 1972) is an Indian actor, film producer, writer and former model working in Hindi films. He has won a National Film Award and received five Filmfare nominations. After modelling for advertisements and companies ...

Scott Mandia Scott A. Mandia is professor of Earth and space sciences and assistant chair of the Physical Sciences Department at Suffolk County Community College, Long Island, New York, USA. He has been teaching introductory meteorology and climatology cours ...

and

Ray Weymann Ray Weymann is a retired astronomer and astrophysicist, associated with the Carnegie Institution of Washington. His PhD is from Princeton University. He is a founder of the Climate Science Rapid Response Team, a member National Academy of Scien ...

- formed the group in November 2010.

Organizations making inquiries

By December 2010, the group reported having fielded inquiries from organizations that included ''

The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...

'', ''

The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...

'' , the ''

Los Angeles Times The ''Los Angeles Times'' (abbreviated as ''LA Times'') is a daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881. Based in the LA-adjacent suburb of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the Un ...

'',

CNN CNN (Cable News Network) is a multinational cable news channel headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the M ...

National Public Radio National Public Radio (NPR, stylized in all lowercase) is an American privately and state funded nonprofit media organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California. It differs from other n ...

, and the

Associated Press The Associated Press (AP) is an American non-profit news agency headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1846, it operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association. It produces news reports that are distributed to its members, U.S. newspa ...

CSRRT recommended resources

Although the group only does scientist "matchmaking" for the press or government, it does recommend two resources for public inquiries
Central Coast Climate Science Education
an
Skeptical Science
It also provides a page o
other recommended sources

Other Q&A efforts from mainstream climate scientists

During the United Nations climate talks in December 2009 and 2010, the

American Geophysical Union The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization of Earth, atmospheric, ocean, hydrologic, space, and planetary scientists and enthusiasts that according to their website includes 130,000 people (not members). AGU's act ...

(AGU) offered
Climate Q&A Service
for journalists and conference attendees, drawing in 2010 from a pool of over 700 AGU members - and strictly limiting the questions to matters of science, not policy or evaluating risk.

RealClimate ''RealClimate'' is a commentary site (blog) on climatology. The site's contributors include climate scientists whose goal is to provide a response to developing stories and a context they feel is sometimes missing in mainstream commentary o ...

is a blog offering similar service.

References

External links

Climate Science Rapid Response Team

Press Release from the Climate Science Rapid Response Team
posted 2010-12-14 by

. ("The team of scientists now numbers greater than 100...") * * {{cite web , work=Science Insider , title=Two New Climate Science Outreach Efforts On Tap , url=http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/11/two-new-climate-science-outreach.html , access-date=2010-12-14 , author=Eli Kintisch , date=2010-11-08 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101206225315/http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/11/two-new-climate-science-outreach.html , archive-date=2010-12-06 , url-status=dead Climatological research organizations Climate change organizations based in the United States