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Hi all,<br>
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Some of you might be interested in participating in this project.
Jean's contact information is included below. You may correspond
directly with her if you wish to participate.<br>
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Paula<br>
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<td>UCS Scientist Speaking Out Project</td>
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<td>Wed, 26 May 2010 17:10:12 -0400</td>
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<td>Jean Sideris <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jsideris@ucsusa.org"><jsideris@ucsusa.org></a></td>
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<div>Paula,</div>
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<div>Cindy Schmidt suggested I contact you about a project the Union of
Concerned Scientists is working on. We've launched a project to educate
the public regarding climate science in the wake of attacks against
climate science and climate scientists in the media over the past
several months. To that end, we hope to engage researchers to monitor
media coverage and respond with comments on websites, letters to the
editor, op-eds, direct communication with reporters, and to speak at
local events. In short, we're hoping to elevate news coverage of
climate change by raising the profile of the people who know the most
about this issue -- real scientists doing real research. <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.ucsusa.org/evidence">www.ucsusa.org/evidence</a>
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<div>For one particular piece of this work, we are pulling together of
a team of scientists to respond to the comment section on online news
articles. As you probably have seen, these can get flooded with
contrarians and angry comments. Our press team has done some research
on these and has a running list of articles that we think could really
benefit from a scientist's voice. Not to get into a back and forth, but
simply to be a voice of reason in that forum. We think the people
reading (who aren't the ones commenting) would appreciate an expert's
voice. Cindy thought you might know of some post-docs who would be
interested. </div>
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<div>We've put together an online forum where we post articles that
could use a response, as well as resources and guidelines. I've got
about 20 scientists involved so far and would like to get that up to 40
or more. We'll see what happens and will adjust over time, but if you
have thoughts on who might be interested, please either forward along
my information or share their information with me and I can follow-up
with more details and answer any questions. </div>
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<div>Best,</div>
<div>Jean Sideris</div>
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<div>Jean Sideris<br>
Outreach Coordinator<br>
Climate and Energy Program<br>
Union of Concerned Scientists</div>
<div>Two Brattle Sq<br>
Cambridge, MA 02238 <br>
617.301.8032</div>
<div><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:jsideris@ucsusa.org">jsideris@ucsusa.org</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.ucsusa.org/">www.ucsusa.org</a></div>
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<div>Are you a scientist concerned about climate change? Become a
member of the UCS Science Network and make your voice heard. Learn more
at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.ucsusa.org/sciencenetwork">http://www.ucsusa.org/sciencenetwork</a></div>
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