[Note: Over 300 scientists have already signed this open letter and signatures are still being collected. On Friday, March 12, 2010, the letter was sent to federal agencies. The vast majority of the signers are climate change scientists who work at leading U.S. universities and institutions. They include both IPCC and non-IPCC authors. Additional signers include professionals from related disciplines, including physical, biological and social scientists. To return to the text of the letter, please visit this page.].
Letter Authors:
Additional Signers:
- Gary W. Yohe, Wesleyan University and Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
- Stephen H. Schneider, Stanford University
- Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University
- William E. Easterling, Pennsylvania State University
Additional Signers:
- Tom Adams, University of Georgia
- Anurag Agrawal, Cornell University
- Laurel J Anderson, Ohio Wesleyan University
- Richard E Andrus, Binghamton University
- Warren W Aney, Senior Wildlife Ecologist
- Richard Anthes, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
- Jon M Antle, Montana State University
- Robert Antonio, University of Kansas
- Nan Crystal Arens, Hobart & William Smith Colleges
- Britt Argow, Wellesley College
- Lillian Ashcraft-Eason, Bowling Green State University
- Mark Axelrod, Michigan State University
- Paul Baer, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Tony Barnosky, University of California Berkeley
- Roger Barry, University of Colorado
- Karen Bartelt, Bradley University
- Peter Bellin, California State University, Northridge
- Juliet Berling, Binghamton University
- Joseph Bernardo, Cornell University
- Celine Bonfils, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Guy P Brasseur, National Center for Atmospheric Research
- Annette Brickley, Challenger Learning Center of Maine
- Deborah Bronk, The College of William and Mary/Virginia Institute of Marine Science
- Robert Brulle, Drexel University
- John Burgeson, CDI Corporation (Retired)
- C. Shepherd Burton, Independent Consultant
- Wil Burns, Santa Clara University School of Law
- Nancy J Byrd, Mirror Lake Protection Association
- Lawrence B Cahoon, University of North Carolina Wilmington
- Michael Calkins, New Mexico State University
- Mariah S Carbone, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Robert Carson, Whitman College
- Patrick Cassen, NASA-Ames Research Center (Retired)
- Nina Chaopricha, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Terry Chapin, University of Alaska
- Barry Chernoff, Wesleyan University
- M. Robin Church, William and Mary
- Raymond Clarke, Sarah Lawrence College
- David A Cleveland, University of California Santa Barbara
- Neil S Cobb, Northern Arizona University
- Jonathan J Cole, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
- Robert S Coleman, The Ohio State University
- Joseph C Colosi, DeSales University
- Roger M Cooke, Resources for the Future
- Anthony D. Cortese, Second Nature
- Susan A Crate, George Mason University
- Ellen J Crivella, CHMHill
- Danny Cullenward, Stanford University
- Janel Curry, Calvin College
- R Laurence Davis, University of New Haven
- Damon Delistraty, Washington State University
- William DeMott, Indiana-Purdue University
- Elizabeth R DeSombre, Wellesley College
- Steve Dickman, State University of New York - Binghamton
- Francis J DiSalvo, Cornell University
- Kathleen M Dixon, Bowling Green State University
- Tracy Dobson, Michigan State University
- Richard D Doctor, Argonne National Laboratory
- Francine L Dolins, University of Michigan-Dearborn
- Samir Doshi, University of Vermont
- David Downie, Fairfield University
- Cliffort S Duke, Ecological Society of America
- C. Mark Eakin, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- David R Easterling, NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center
- Katrina Edwards, University of Southern California
- James Eflin, Ball State University
- Aaron M Ellison, Harvard University
- Sophia Engel, Lund University
- James E Evans, Bowling Green State University
- Brian D Fath, Towson University
- Jonathan Fink, Arizona State University
- Matthew L Forister, University of Nevada, Reno
- Ian Foster, University of Chicago/Argonne
- Allan Frei, Hunter College
- Peter C Frumhoff, Union of Concerned Scientists
- Bill Fulkerson, University of Tennessee
- Jed Fuhrman, University of Southern California
- Fabrizio Gabbiani, Baylor College of Medicine
- Deborah Rigling Gallagher, Duke University
- Josh Galster, Montclair State University
- Frederick R Gehlbach, Baylor University
- Orin G Gelderloos, University of Michigan-Dearborn
- Thomas W Giesen, Oregon State University
- Sarah Gilman, The Claremont Colleges
- Peter H Gleick, Pacific Institute
- Steven Goodbred, Vanderbilt University
- Eban Goodstein, Bard College
- Vivien Gornitz, Columbia University
- Julian W Green, University of South Carolina Upstate
- Alden Griffith, Wellesley College
- Eric C Grimm, Illinois State Museum
- Jude W Grosser, University of Florida
- Robert L Grossman, University of Colorado (retired) and American Meteorological Association
- Andrew Gunther, Union of Concerned Scientists
- Peter Guttorp, University of Washington
- Peter M Haas, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Brian Hagenbuch, Hartwick College
- Nelson G Hairston, Jr, Cornell University
- Healy Hamilton, California Academy of Science
- Alan Hamlet, University of Washington
- Michael Hanemann, University of California, Berkeley
- Carol Harden, University of Tennessee
- Robert Harriss, Houston Advanced Research Center
- Anthony S Hartshorn, James Madison University
- David Hassenzahl, University of Nevada Las Vegas
- Paul Hearty, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
- Robert T Heath, Kent State University
- Michael K Heiman, Dickinson College
- Brian Helmuth, University of South Carolina
- Lamont C Hempel, University of Redlands
- Dennis Hibbert, The Evergreen State College
- Jeffrey A Hicke, University of Idaho
- Malcolm Hill, University of Richmond
- Paul F Hoffman, Harvard University
- Michael P Hoffmann, Cornell University
- Michael Hoos, Duke University
- Richard Horan, Michigan State University
- Peter W Houlihan, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- John J Hren, North Carolina State University
- Matthew Huber, Purdue Univesity
- Malcolm Hughes, University of Arizona
- Bruce A Hungate, Northern Arizona University
- David Hutchins, University of Southern California
- David W Inouye, University of Maryland
- Detelina Ivanova, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Robert Jacob, Argonne National Laboratory
- Charles Jackson, University of Texas at Austin
- Dale Jamieson, New York University
- Tracie Jenkins, The University of Georgia
- Raymond Johnson, Institute of Climate Studies USA
- Gregory V Jones, Southern Oregon University
- R Christian Jones, George Mason University
- Andrew Jorgenson, University of Utah
- L Alex Kahl, Rutgers University and Palmer Station, Antarctica
- Jeffrey Kargel, University of Arizona
- James Kasting, Pennsylvania State University
- Darrell S Kaufman, Northern Arizona University
- Patricia M Keilbach, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
- Klaus Keller, Pennsylvania State University
- Marcus M Key, Dickinson College and the University of East Anglia
- Jeffrey Kiehl, National Center for Atmospheric Research
- Tom Kimmerer, Moore Ventures
- David E Kitchen, University of Richmond
- Peter LK Kneupfer, Binghamton University
- Greg Knight, Pennsylvania State University
- George W Koch, Northern Arizona University
- Carla Koretsky, Western Michigan University
- Kirk Korista, Pennsylvania State University
- Michael E Kraft, University of Wisconsin – Green Bay
- Michael A Kruge, Montclair State University
- Kelly Kryc, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- Lee Kump, Pennsylvania State University
- Gabriela Kutting, Rutgers University (Newark)
- Ron Kwok, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Venkat Lakshmi, University of South Carolina
- Patricia Romero Lankao, National Center for Atmospheric Research
- Neil Leary, Dickinson College
- Tali D Lee, University of Wisconsin Eau Claire
- Robert Lempert, RAND
- Mark D Levine, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Sydney Levitus, World Data Center for Oceanography
- Richard L Lindroth, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Karen Litfin, University of Washington
- Thomas E Lovejoy, The Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment – George Mason University
- David Lusch, Michigan State University
- Michael C MacCracken, Climate Institute
- David C Major, Columbia University
- Thomas F Malone, Retired - AGU, AMS, NAS, ICSU
- Scott Mandia, Suffolk County Community College
- Michael Mann, Pennsylvania State University
- Frances Mathews, Emeritus Professor, California State University, Fullerton
- Charles A McClaugherty, Mount Union College
- Brock R McMillan, Brigham Young University
- Linda Mearns, National Center for Atmospheric Research
- Gerald Meehl, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
- Duncan Menge, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
- Joseph P Messina, Michigan State University
- Kathleen Miller, National Center for Atmospheric Research
- Evan Mills, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Elizabeth Milroy, Wesleyan University
- Ronald B Mitchell, University of Oregon
- Gregory Moller, University of Idaho
- William R Moomaw, Tufts University
- Kailen Mooney, University of California at Irvine
- Nathan Moore, Michigan State University
- Brian W Moores, Randolph-Macon College
- David Morrison, NASA Ames Research Center
- Susanne C Moser, University of California-Santa Cruz & Susanne Moser Research and Consulting
- Stephen Mulkey, University of Idaho
- Meredith Ferdie Muth, University of Virginia and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Benjamin Naecker, University of Texas at Austin
- Ronald P Neilson, Oregon State University
- Riley Nelson, Brigham Young University
- Jullia Nerbonne, University of Minnesota
- Richard B Norgaard, University of California, Berkeley
- Valentine Nzengung, University of Georgia
- Rick Oches, Bentley University
- Mary O’Connor, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
- Dennis Ojima, Colorado State University
- Jennifer M Olson, Michigan State University
- Michael Oppenheimer, Princeton University
- Catherine O’Reilly, Bard College
- Richard S Ostfeld, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
- Jonathan Overpeck, University of Arizona
- Mike Palmer, Oklahoma State University
- Michael Papaik, Sonoma State University
- Christopher Paradise, Davidson College
- Randall Parkinson, RWParkinson Consulting, Inc.
- Edward Parson, University of Michigan
- Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin – Madison
- Marshall Perrin, University of California, Los Angeles
- Rolf O Peterson, Michigan Technological University
- Shelley B Petroy, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp
- Tom Phillips, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Thomas Piechota, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- Kenneth Piers, Calvin College
- Karen R Polenske, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Henry N. Pollack, University of Michigan
- Leonid Polyak, Ohio State University
- Gregory A Pope, Montclair State University
- James Powell, University of Southern California
- Susan E Powers, Clarkson University
- Thomas H. Pritchett, Cedar Crest College
- Maureen Raymo, Boston University
- Robert B Richardson, Michigan State University
- Eric M Riggs, Purdue University
- J Timmons Roberts, Brown University
- G Philip Robertson, Michigan State University
- Michael Roden, University of Georgia
- Terry Root, Stanford University
- Joseph Rouse, Wesleyan University
- Brad Rowe, Michigan State University
- Dana Royer, Wesleyan University
- Steven Rudnick, Retired, University of Massachusetts Boston
- Steven W Running, University of Montana
- Summer Rupper, Brigham Young University
- Philip B Russell, NASA Ames Research Center
- Krystal Rypien, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
- Dork Sahagian, Lehigh University
- Nicanor Z Saliendra, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- Robert L Sanford, University of Denver
- Robert J Santoro , The Pennsylvania State University
- Ron Sass, Rice University
- John Savino, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
- Dave Schimel, NEON, Inc
- Joshua Schimel, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Lee Schipper, Global Metropolitan Studies
- Paul Schopf, George Mason University
- Miranda Schreurs, Freie Universitat Berlin (US scientist)
- Edward Schuur, University of Florida
- Kim Scipes, Purdue University North Central
- Kevin G Sellner, Chesapeake Research Consortium
- David W Seybert, Duquesne University
- Karen Shein, NOAA National Climatic Data Center
- Harry Shipman, University of Delaware
- CK Shum, Ohio State University
- Laurence Simon, Brandeis University
- Michael Singer, Wesleyan University
- Jack W Sites, Jr, Brigham Young University
- Adam Joshua Smargon, University of Delaware
- Joel Smith, Stratus Consulting, Inc
- Kirk R Smith, University of California, Berkeley
- William Solecki, City University of New York
- Richard CJ Somerville, University of California, San Diego
- Gerilyn S Soreghan, University of Oklahoma
- Gus Speth, Yale University
- James R Spotila, Drexel University
- Paul F Steinberg, Harvey Mudd College
- Paula Steinker, Bowling Green State University
- Leigh Stearns, University of Kansas
- Mark Stewart, University of South Florida
- Ronald Stoner, Bowling Green State University
- Robert Stottlemyer, Michigan Technological University
- Anthony W Strawa, NASA Ames Research Center
- Kenneth Strzepek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- William Sullivan, University of Illinois
- Sonia Sultan , Wesleyan University
- John Swaddle, College of William and Mary
- Sarah Swope, USDA ARS Exotic and Invasive Weeds Research Group, Albany CA
- Karyn Tabor, Conservation International
- Philip L Taylor, Case Western Reserve University
- Claudia Tebaldi, Climate Central
- Richard E Teets, Delphi Research Labs
- Philip G Terrie, Bowling Green State University
- Pam Thinesen, Century College
- Robert H Thomas, Consultant to SIGMA Space and NASA/Wallops
- Dennis Tirpak, Retired from EPA and OECD
- Kevin E Trenberth, National Center for Atmospheric Research
- Robert W Turner, Colgate University
- Stephen R Turns, The Pennsylvania State University
- Nadine Unger, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University
- Cornelis J van der Veen, University of Kansas
- Moira van Staaden, Bowling Green State University
- Johan Varekamp, Wesleyan University
- Robert L Vertrees, Ohio State University
- Norman J Vig, Carleton College
- Robert K Vincent, Bowling Green State University
- Edward Vine, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Brian Walker, Nova Southeastern University
- Caryl Waggett, Allegheny College
- Warren M. Washington, National Center for Atmospheric Research
- Darryn Waugh, John Hopkins University
- Spencer Weart, American Institute of Physics (retired)
- Mort Webster, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- C Susan Weiler, Whitman College
- Judith S Weis, Rutgers University
- Sheri Wells-Jensen, Bowling Green State University
- David A White, Loyola University
- Tom Wigley, National Center for Atmospheric Research
- Thomas Wilbanks, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Jeffrey Wishart, eTec (Electric Transportation Engineering Corporation)
- Mick Womersley, Unity College
- Dorothy Woolum, California State University, Fullerton
- Warren W Wood, Michigan State University
- Kateryna M Wowk, University of Delaware
- Brent Yarnal, Pennsylvania State University
- Tamin Younos, Virginia Tech University
- Ben Zaitchik, Johns Hopkins University
- Craig Zirbel, Bowling Green State University
- Douglas Zook, Boston University