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The panel of experts:
Thomas L. Delworth
is a Research Scientist and Group Leader in the Climate Change, Variability and
Prediction Group at NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL). He is
also a Lecturer at Princeton University in the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Program. Dr. Delworth has played a key role in the development of
several generations of climate models at GFDL. His research largely
focuses on decadal to centennial climate variability and change through the
synthesis of climate models and observational data. On these time scales the
behavior of the climate system is a mixture of natural variability and the
response of the climate system to changing radiative forcing induced by
changing greenhouse gases and aerosols. Understanding the natural variability
of the climate system on decadal scales is critical to our ability to detect
climate change, and to understand the processes responsible for observed change
from the global to the regional scale. Dr. Delworth has served on a number of
national and international committees, and is an author of more than 90
scientific papers.
Arun Chaddha: I graduated in 1995 from Western New
England College with a BSBA in Engineering Management. In 2009, Shannon
Martiak and I started Solar Mite Solutions with the goal of helping both
residential and commercial clients lower their carbon footprint while reducing
their electrical energy costs. Additionally, we have incorporated Energy
Audits, Energy Management Systems and Lighting Solutions to help reduce the
additional consumption of electrical and carbon fuel that is incurred by the
structure, thus further reducing the overall effect on the environment.
Joseph Robertson
is a visiting instructor in Spanish language and humanities at Villanova
University, where he is also the creator and coordinator of GreenNOVA.org online
community for environmentally sustainable projects, and organizer of the ClimateTalks.info roundtable
discussion series. He is founder and director of the Hot Spring Network,
a social-networking innovation project aimed at brainstorming paradigm-shift
solutions, ProjectQuipu.net, a user-made
global economic forum that seeks to find new ways to assess the real economic
value of intangibles, and to propose generative policy solutions that empower
individuals and communities. Through his volunteer work with the
non-partisan, non-profit organization Citizens Climate Lobby, he advocates for
sustainable energy and climate policy on Capitol Hill. In September 2010,
he produced the report Building a Green Economy: The Economics of Carbon-pricing and the Transition to Clean, Renewable Fuels for Citizens Climate Lobby.
The report is available in print and online and is distributed to elected
officials and to organizations across the United States. All of his projects can be accessed
through the website - PoetEconomist.com.
Jan Dash has
a PhD in theoretical physics from UC Berkeley, and has published over 50 papers
in scientific journals. He was Directeur de Recherche at the Centre de Physique
Théorique CNRS in Marseille, France. He is currently Visiting Research Scholar
at Fordham University and Adjunct Professor at the Courant Institute NYU. Jan
is the UU-UNO Climate Initiative Chair and Managing Editor of their Climate
Portal at http://climate.uu-uno.org/. He is a
Matchmaker for the Climate Science Rapid Response Team whose goal is to provide authoritative scientific
answers to media questions. Jan is the author of the popular
“one-liner” responses to climate contrarian/denier/faux-skeptic fallacies. He was the Editor of
the Climate Statement Summary and Recommendations to
Governments of the UN Committee on
Sustainable Development (Co-NGO, NY),
delivered to leaders at the Copenhagen, Cancun, and Durban Climate Conferences.
Relevant to the economic impacts of global warming, Jan has worked for 25 years
in quantitative risk management at various financial institutions, and wrote a
book on the subject.
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