Newswise — Eight leading scientific organizations will release a document Wednesday calling for the next presidential administration and Congress to better protect the nation from the impacts of severe weather and climate change. The document, which will be provided to the presidential campaigns of John McCain and Barack Obama, outlines specific steps to strengthen science and help national and local decision makers.
Representatives from the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, the American Meteorological Society, and the Weather Coalition will take part in the teleconference. The other five organizations that wrote the document are the American Geophysical Union, the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, the Consortium for Ocean Leadership, and the Alliance for Earth Observations. Collectively they represent thousands of scientists, technology specialists, public policy analysts, and other experts.
More than a quarter of the U.S. gross national product, or over $2 trillion, is sensitive to weather and climate events, according to the report. Climate change has the potential to lead to more extreme events.
Date: Wednesday, August 20, 2008Time: 12:00-1:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (10:00-11:00 a.m. Mountain Daylight Time)Phone number: 800-729-7116 (No passcode required.)
Panelists:
-- Jack Fellows, UCAR vice president for corporate affairs-- Keith Seitter, American Meteorological Society executive director-- John Snow, Weather Coalition co-chair and dean of the College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences at the University of Oklahoma
The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research is a consortium of 71 North American universities with Ph.D. programs in the atmospheric sciences and related disciplines. UCAR manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research under sponsorship by the National Science Foundation. Opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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