Famous five for climate

Adam Hewitt • Published 29 Jun 2010 15:00 0 Comments

THE UN organisation investigating climate change has drafted in five Reading scientists to work on its latest report.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is putting together its fifth report and has picked 831 scientists to contribute, out of 3,000 nominations from around the world.

Professors Nigel Arnell, Eric Guilyardi, Jonathan Gregory and Rowan Sutton from Reading University will be the lead authors on some of the chapters that will make up the final report and Professor Keith Shine will be the review editor on another chapter.

University spokeswoman Rona Cheeseman said:"As lead authors, our scientists will work with experts from other countries in an extensive assessment of available literature on climate change and its impacts. IPCC reports undergo thorough review by scientific peers and world governments; lead authors have the task of amending the report in response to those comments.

"Review editors are there to ensure that review comments are afforded appropriate consideration, to advise lead authors on how to handle contentious/controversial issues and ensure genuine controversies are reflected adequately in the text of the report.

"Both authors and review editors are guided by IPCC procedures which ensure comprehensiveness, scientific independence, openness, thorough review and transparency."

The report will be published in 2013 and 2014. Visit www.ipcc.ch

The scientists' responsibilities will be:

- Prof Nigel Arnell (Walker Institute Director) - lead author WGII Chapter 3, Freshwater Resources

- Prof Eric Guilyardi (NCAS - Climate) - lead author WGI Chapter 9, Evaluation of Climate Models

- Prof Jonathan Gregory (NCAS - Climate and Met Office) - lead author WGI Chapter 13, Sea Level Change

- Prof Keith Shine (Department of Meteorology) - review editor of WGI Chapter 8 , Anthropogenic and Natural Radiative Forcing

- Prof Rowan Sutton (NCAS - Climate Director) - lead author WGI Chapter 11, Near-term Climate Change: Projections and Predictability

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