{"id":5519,"date":"2010-12-06T02:42:21","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T07:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/?p=5519"},"modified":"2010-12-08T18:06:07","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T23:06:07","slug":"the-agu-q-a-service-open-for-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2010\/12\/the-agu-q-a-service-open-for-business\/","title":{"rendered":"The AGU Q & A Service–Open for Business"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is just a brief notice for those members of the media who may not be aware of the American Geophysical Union<\/a>‘s (AGU) re-vamped question and answer service for climate science questions<\/a>. There are about 700 participating AGU scientists, with several answering questions at any given time. This service should be highly useful for getting relatively quick answers to specific, climate science questions during the United Nations COP-16<\/a> negotiations in Cancun, Mexico this week, as well at the AGU annual meeting<\/a> which runs the following week. The service will continue some time beyond the AGU meetings as well.<\/p>\n

Contrary to incorrect media and blog stories last month, this service is for climate science questions only<\/em> from members of the media–no policy or politically related questions are fielded. Go here<\/a> for more background and procedural information if interested.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> The Service’s coordinator informs us that bloggers are considered part of the media, and so their questions are welcome as well.<\/p>\n

Update 2:<\/strong> Jeff Taylor, the service’s coordinator, has addressed, in the comments, a number of the questions and suggestions raised, and provided further links for those with more questions about climate and\/or the service’s operation.<\/p>\n\n<\/div> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is just a brief notice for those members of the media who may not be aware of the American Geophysical Union‘s (AGU) re-vamped question and answer service for climate science questions. There are about 700 participating AGU scientists, with several answering questions at any given time. This service should be highly useful for getting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-climate-science","category-communicating-climate","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t