A Winsome Climate Panel Presents Its New Cast - Green Blog - NYTimes.com

Chris Field, the new co-chairman of Working Group II and director of the department of global ecology at the Carnegie Institution for Science, held a teleconference with two of the newly appointed members. “We were thrilled and honored by the number and quality of scientists who expressed interest in being a part of the I.P.C.C. for this important process,” he said. “It was important for our authors to reflect a range of views, expertise and geographic regions. And that priority is reflected in an author team that’s more diverse than ever.”


Some 3,000 scientists were nominated to fill the positions, mostly by national committees. The panel did not say what criteria were used to whittle the number to 831.