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Contact: Harvey Leifert
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American Geophysical Union

AGU to announce new statement on climate change

The Council of the American Geophysical Union adopted a new position statement, "Human Impacts on Climate," at its meeting in San Francisco, California, on December 12. This statement replaces "Climate Change and Greenhouse Gases," adopted in December 1998 and reaffirmed in December 2002.

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:

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.

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