Climate experts
50+ Really Serious Scientist Sources on Climate
(who would probably be glad to talk to a journalist)

Generalists (Overview, Policy, Multi-Disciplinary)

Robert W. Corell
American Society of Meteorology. Expertise: Science/Policy interface; Arctic. Phone: (202) 737-9032 x409 (voicemail only). E-mail. Bio: Wikipedia and American Meteorological Society. Contact Info.
James Hansen
NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies. Expertise: General. Phone: (212) 678-5500. E-mail. Web site.
Henry D. Jacoby
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Expertise: General; integrated analysis of climate from perspectives of natural science, social science. policy, and management. Phone: (617) 253-6609. E-mail. Web site. Publications. Bio.
Robert Lempert
RAND. Bio. Contact Info: via RAND Public Affairs Office, (703) 413-1100 x5117 and (310) 451-6913, or email.
Mike MacCracken
Climate Institute. Expertise: General. Phone: (301) 564-4255. E-mail. Bio.
Jerry D. Mahlman
National Center for Atmospheric Research. Phone: (303) 497-1608). E-mail. Bio.
Roger A. Pielke Sr.
Professor and State Climatologist, Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University. Expertise: Modeling and hurricanes. Phone: (970) 491-8293. E-mail. Web site/blog archives. Bio. Wikipedia.
John Reilly
MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. Expertise: General. Phone: (617) 253-8040. E-mail. Web site. Publications and Bio.
Daniel Sarewitz
Arizona State University. Expertise: General. Phone: (480) 727-8831. E-mail. Contact Info.
Stephen H. Schneider
Stanford University. Expertise: General. Phone: (650) 725-9978. E-mail. Web site.
Robert T. Watson
World Bank. Bio. Contact Info: Contact via World Bank Press Office (202) 473-0243.
T.M.L. ("Tom") Wigley
National Center for Atmospheric Research. Phone: (303) 497-2690. E-mail. Web site: . Publications. Bio.

Climate Modeling and Prediction

Anthony J. Broccoli
Rutgers University. Phone: (732) 932-9817. E-mail. Web site. Publications: Rutgers and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory/NOAA. Bio.
Jonathan Gregory
University of Reading (UK) and Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction (Met Office). Phone: +44 118 378 7376 . E-mail. Web site. Publications. Bio.
Gavin A. Schmidt
NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies. Phone: (212) 678-5627. E-mail. Web site. Bio.
Richard Somerville
Scripps Institute of Oceanography, Univ. California at San Diego. Phone: (858) 534-4644. E-mail. Web site. Bio.
Ronald J. Stouffer
NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (Princeton, NJ). Phone: (609) 452-6576. E-mail. Web site. Publications. Bio.

Paleoclimatology (Past Climate)

Thomas J. Crowley
Duke University. Phone: (919) 681-8228-. E-mail. Web site. Bio.
Daniel P. Schrag
Harvard University. Phone: (617) 495-7676. E-mail. Web site.

Observed Climate Change, Temperature Record (last 1,000 years)

John R. Christy
University of Alabama, Huntsville; Director, Earth System Science Center. Expertise: Temperature record. Phone: (256) 961-7763. E-mail. Web site. Publications. Bio. Wikipedia. See discussion under "Skeptics".
Thomas R. Karl
NOAA National Climatic Data Center. Expertise: Directs the principal U.S. repository of instrumental climate data. Phone: (828)271-4476. E-mail. Bio: US Global Change Research Program (scroll down) and Johns Hopkins University (includes publications).
Michael Mann
Penn State University. Expertise: Temperature record of past 10,000 years. Phone: (814) 863-4075. E-mail. Web site. Publications. Bio.

Cryosphere (Glaciology, Poles, Ice Sheets, Sea Ice)

Richard Alley
Penn State University. Expertise: Glaciology; abrupt climate change. Phone: (814) 863-1700. E-mail: rba6@psu.edu or ralley@essc.psu.edu. Web site. Publications. Bio.
Robert Bindschadler
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory. Phone: 301-614-5664. E-mail. Web site.
Chris Rapley
British Antarctic Survey (Director). Phone: +44 (01223) 221400. E-mail. Web site.
Ted Scambos
NOAA National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado. Phone: 303-492-1113 or 303-492-6199. E-mail. Web site.
Lonnie Thompson
Ohio State University.. Expertise: Glaciology. Phone:(614) 292-6652. E-mail. Wikipedia. Web site. Publications and Bio.

Carbon Cycle, Carbon Emissions, Biogeochemical Cycles

Richard A. Houghton
Woods Hole Research Center (Senior Scientist). Phone: (508) 540-9900 x116. E-mail. Web site. Publications and Bio: Woods Hole Research Center and US Climate Change Science Program.
Ken Caldeira
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Phone: (925) 423-4191. E-mail: caldeira2@llnl.gov or kenc@llnl.gov. Publications and Bio.
Michael J. Prather
University of California at Irvine. Phone: (949) 824-5838 or (949) 824-8794. E-mail. Web site. Publications.
A. Scott Denning
Colorado State University. Phone: (970) 491-6936. E-mail. Web site. Bio.
William H. Schlesinger
Duke University. Phone: (919) 613-8004. E-mail. Web site. Publications. Bio.

Natural Climate Variability (All Time Scales)

John Kutzbach
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Center for Climatic Research. Phone: (608) 262-0392. E-mail. Web site. Publications.
John Michael Wallace
University of Washington. Phone: (206)543-7390. E-mail. Web site. Publications. Bio.

Oceanography and Ocean-Climate Links — Sudden Climate Change

Tim Barnett
Scripps Institute of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego. Expertise: Oceanography, ENSO, Detection and attribution of anthropogenic climate change. Phone: (858)534-3223. E-mail: tbarnett@ucsd.edu or timdotbarnett@ucsd.edu. Bio.
Wallace S. Broecker
Earth Institute at Columbia University. Phone: (845) 365-8413. E-mail. Bio.
Mark A. Cane
Earth Institute at Columbia University. Phone: 845-365-8344. E-mail: mcane@ldeo.columbia.edu or mac6@columbia.edu. Web site. Bio: Columbia's International Research Institute for Climate and Society and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. More Contact Info.
Jeffrey P. Severinghaus
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego. Phone: (858) 822-2483. E-mail. Web site. Publications. Bio.
Carl Wunsch
MIT's Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. Phone: (617) 253-5937. E-mail. Web site. Publications and Bio

Atmospheric Chemistry — Stratospheric Ozone

Daniel L. Albritton
NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory. Phone: (303) 497-5785. E-mail. Bio (scroll down).
Susan Solomon
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado at Boulder. Expertise: Atmospheric chemistry. Phone: (303) 497-3483. E-mail. Web site. Publications and Bio.

Extreme Weather, Proposed Hurricane-Climate Link

Judith Curry
Georgia Institute of Technology. Expertise: Ocean and atmospheric thermodynamics; polar clouds; hurricanes. Phone:(404) 894-3955 (Secretary); (404) 803-2012 (Cell). E-mail. Web site. Publications. Bio.
Kerry Emanuel
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Phone: (617) 253-2462 (office) or (781) 266-8144 (cell). E-mail. Web site. Publications.
Thomas R. Knutson
NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. Phone: (609) 452-6509. E-mail. Web site. Publications.
Chris Landsea
NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory. Phone: (305) 229-4446. E-mail. Publications. Bio (dated).
James O'Brien
Director of the Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies and former Florida state climatologist. Expertise: Hurricanes. Phone: (850) 644-4581. E-mail. COAPS Web site. Bio, resume, and publications. O'Brien has argued against the idea that climate change is causing more intense hurricanes in a publication published by the industry-funded Marshall Institute.

Climate Change Impacts

Christopher Field
Stanford University. Phone: (650) 325-1521 x 213. E-mail. Web site: Stanford's Center for Environmental Science and Policy and Department of Global Ecology. Publications. Bio.
Kathleen Miller
National Center for Atmospheric Research. Phone: 303-497-8115. E-mail. Web site. Publications. Bio. Research Overview.
Harold A Mooney
Stanford University. Expertise: Environmental biology; effects of climates on ecosystems; effects of enhanced CO2 on ecosystems. Phone:(650) 723-1179. E-mail. Web site. Publications. Bio.
Camille Parmesan
University of Texas at Austin. Expertise: Impact of climate on wildlife. Phone: (512) 232-1860. E-mail. Web site. Publications. Bio.
Jeff Price
American Bird Conservancy (Director of Climate Change Impact Studies). Expertise: Impacts on birds. Phone: (303) 530-7239. E-mail. Web site. Bio.
Terry L.Root
Stanford University. Phone: (650) 736-1296. E-mail: troot@Stanford.edu. Web site.
Cynthia Rosenzweig
NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Phone: (914) 365-8704. E-mail. Web site: NASA and Columbia Univ.
Virginia R. Van Sickle-Burkett
U.S. Geological Survey, National Wetlands Research Center. Expertise: Impacts on wetlands. Phone: (337)266-8636 or (318)256-5628. E-mail. Web site. Publications and Bio.
John E. Walsh
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Expertise: Sea ice and snow; Arctic; severe weather. Phone: 217-333-7521. E-mail. Web site: Walsh's and Department of Atmospheric Sciences. Bio.

Other

Ronald G. Prinn
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Expertise: General. Phone:(617)253-2452. E-mail. Web site. Publications and Bio.
V. (Venkatachalam) Ramaswamy
NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory/Princeton Univ. Expertise: Radiative forcing. Phone: (609) 452-6510. E-mail. Publications. Bio.
Benjamin D. Santer
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Expertise: Statistical analysis; detection and attribution of anthropogenic influence. Phone: (925) 422-2486. E-mail. More Contact Info.
Kevin E. Trenberth
National Center for Atmospheric Research. Phone: (303) 497-1318. E-mail. Web site. Publications. Bio.
Michael McElroy
Harvard University. Phone: (617) 495-2351. E-mail. Web site. Publications and Bio.
Francis Bretherton
University of Wisconsin. Phone: (608) 262-7497. E-mail. Web site.

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