A New Year’s Resolution for a New National Dialogue on Climate Change
ClimateChangeNationalForum.org is bringing together scientists at the forefront of climate change research to share their assessments and to set the foundation for bipartisan policy debate.
Houston, TX (PRWEB) January 09, 2014 — ClimateChangeNationalForum.
“As the Texas State Climatologist, I am often asked if there is an objective source where laymen can learn about climate science. We want CCNF to be that source. Additionally, I think the public can benefit tremendously from seeing how scientists think and reason. We ask them to trust our collective scientific wisdom without the opportunity to see how we evaluate conflicting or flawed evidence and develop judgments. Through CCNF, they will be able to follow our reasoning,” said Dr. Nielsen-Gammon.
The site will first be used by scientists to discuss the latest research on climate change and to share and debate aspects of climate change relevant to policy making. These scientists will also fact check claims being made in the news media.
CCNF’s growing community of science columnists include: Dr. Kerry Emanuel—Professor of Atmospheric Science and Director of the Program in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Dr. John Anderson—W. Ewing Professor of Oceanography and Director of the Shell Center for Sustainability at Rice University; Dr. Jim Bouldin—research ecologist and contributor to RealClimate.org; Dr. Bart Verheggen—atmospheric scientist and founder of the blog “Our Changing Climate;” Dr. Mauri Pelto—glaciologist, Professor of Environmental Science at Nichols College, and Director of the North Cascade Glacier Climate Project; and Lulu Liu—2nd year PhD student in Applied Physics at Harvard University.
The platform is open to any scientist – and later, subject matter or policy expert – that can meet CCNF’s columnist criteria. CCNF is actively soliciting Fellows of the American Geophysical Union, American Meteorological Society, and American Institute of Physics in order to amass a columnist community that is representative of the greater climate and physical sciences publishing community.
The project was started by Michael Quirke, a law student at the University of Houston Law Center, web developer, and a former Army infantry officer. Quirke is serving as the Executive Director of CCNF.
“The American public is divided on whether man made climate change is real and even more so on what we can or should do about climate change as a nation. CCNF aims to bridge the communication gap by providing a site for everyone to gain a deeper understanding of the science so that informed and meaningful policy discussions can follow,” said Quirke.
In the second phase of the CCNF project, subject matter experts and policy makers will be able to join the discussion and compare and debate the costs and benefits of possible responses.
For More Information
General inquires: Michael Quirke, CCNF Executive Director, 281-832-3170, ClimateChangeNationalForum(at)
About Climate Change National Forum
Climate Change National Forum is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded and led by leading climate scientists. The mission of CCNF is to educate the American public on the science of climate change and its policy implications. CCNF administers an ongoing public forum wherein scientists can discuss the latest research on climate change, share and debate ideas on aspects of climate change relevant to policy making, and fact check outside claims being made in the news media. In Phase II, subject matter experts and policy makers will be able to join this forum to compare and debate the costs and benefits of possible responses. CCNF is headquartered in Houston, TX.
Author: Michael Quirke
Michael Quirke is the executive director of CCNF and is temporarily serving as the Forum's journalist. He first began work on an early beta version of this website in 2010 shortly after his military service and before starting law school at the University of Houston. He helped form the CCNF nonprofit and draft its charter under the guidance of the founding board in his second year of law school and has been corralling scientists ever since. His vision for this journalism project is simple: Establish an open Socratic forum for scientists, give each scientist complete independence on the platform, encourage scientific skepticism and Socratic inquiry by all, and impartially report what transpires; and then, once a good foundation in the science has been set, kick off a dynamic and indefinite bipartisan policy debate on what can or should be done about climate change as a nation. He hopes you join him on this intellectual journey.
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