Hello all, I am a web journalist at ESSIC and we plan to write an article for the site on the issue of climate change. With the various extreme weather conditions across the United States, and the debate on the ECOLOG listserv under the email subject "Confronting climate deniers on college campuses - EOS Forum", we decided not only to bring up the issue of climate change, but to ask you all your views on the issue.
What we would like to know is: do you feel recent events reinforce existing data or monitoring processes that suggest climate change is occurring or is the recent extreme conditions random or cyclical events unrelated to a larger trend. ***If you already made comments about this topic on the ECOLOG listserv's "climate deniers debate", please let us know if we can include your comments made in the emails as part of the article.*** We at the ESSIC Journalism Office appreciate any and all feedback on this issue. (We also have a series on the ESSIC site which compiles articles covering climate change from news organizations such as Science Daily and Environmental News Network. Feel free to take a look: http://essic.umd.edu/joom2/index.php/current-news/news-highlights/1108-climate-change-weekly-roundup-073012 http://essic.umd.edu/joom2/index.php/current-news/news-highlights/1099-climate-change-weekly-roundup-072312 http://essic.umd.edu/joom2/index.php/current-news/news-highlights/1095-climate-change-weekly-roundup-071612) Thank you! -- Lauren McLendon / ESSIC Web Journalist Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center Voice: 301-405-0468 / Fax: 301-405-8468 Email: lau...@essic.umd.edu / n...@essic.umd.edu (University of Maryland Class of 2014) Find us on FaceBook: http://facebook.com/ESSICUMD > Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ESSICUMD
