Join "Live chats" with experts on global warming.Since the end of May consumers have been able to participate in live online chats with experts on global warming global warming, the gradual increase of the temperature of the earth's lower atmosphere as a result of the increase in greenhouse gases since the Industrial Revolution. . The chats, held every few weeks, are conducted through email, with questions sent in by visitors to the www.globalwarming.org website. The answers from the experts are then immediately posted on the web site. The chats will include scientists, policy experts, and economists to address a wide range of issues related to global warming. The first chat on May 27, 2004, was on the Kyoto Protocol and its future, with Iain Murray, a Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, specializing in global climate change and environmental science. The second chat on June 3 featured Dr. James J. O'Brien, Climatologist cli·ma·tol·o·gy n. The meteorological study of climates and their phenomena. cli  ma·to·log for the State of Florida and Professor of Meteorology meteorology, branch of science that deals with the atmosphere of a planet, particularly that of the earth, the most important application of which is the analysis and prediction of weather. & Oceanography oceanography, study of the seas and oceans. The major divisions of oceanography include the geological study of the ocean floor (see plate tectonics) and features; physical oceanography, which is concerned with the physical attributes of the ocean water, such as at Florida State University Florida State University, at Tallahassee; coeducational; chartered 1851, opened 1857. Present name was adopted in 1947. Special research facilities include those in nuclear science and oceanography. ; he is also the Director of Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies. Dr. O'Brien talked about the far-out climate scenarios in the Hollywood blockbuster, The Day After Tomorrow. Check in with GlobalWarming.org regularly, and you too can question the experts. |
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