Email 4780, April 2009: Eystein Jansen and Jonathan Overpeck feel the need to "make the case that paleo-science continues to be highly relevant for IPCC"

Email 4780

The scoping of IPCC AR5 will happen in July this year. In the community there have been opinions raised regarding paleo-science in the next report, e.g. whether to have paleo-science dispersed into various topical chapters, e.g. forcing, model-evaluation, sea level etc., or whether it might be best to do as in AR4 to have a separate Paleo-chapter.

There are good arguments for both options, and it is not the intent of this email to voice a specific opinion. Rather it is important to let the scoping process be aware of all the relevant new paleo-science which whould be assessed in AR5, thereby leading to the need for a strong presence of paleoclimate scientists in the LA-team of AR5, particularly in WG1, but also in WG2.

In order to make the case that paleo-science continues to be highly relevant for IPCC, Peck and I have agreed to be the editors of a Slide- series...