AGU to announce new statement on climate change

The new position statement will be released at a press conference in Washington, D.C.

Date: Tuesday, December 16, 2003
Time: 10:00 a.m. EST
Place: Murrow Room, National Press Club, 13th floor, 529 14th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.

The participants in the press conference are:

Robert Dickinson, President of the American Geophysical Union; Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia

Marvin Geller, Professor, Institute for Terrestrial and Planetary Atmospheres, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York;

John Christy, Director, Earth Systems Science Center, University of Alabama Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama

Ellen Druffel, Professor, Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, California

The text of the statement will be transmitted by e-mail to the AGU press release distribution list at the time of the press conference. It will not be available prior to that time.