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November 14, 2007
Most reporters who are not already on-site in Valencia will be "covering" the event remotely - via wire services or national media. But the fallout and follow-up stories will be much closer to home, and will keep breaking in the remainder of 2007 and into 2008. SEJ will be updating and upgrading the resources on its Web site available to help reporters with the climate change story. These will include virtual front-row seats at the Valencia events and an online Rolodex of experts who may help with regional stories. Drafts of the "Synthesis Report," which summarizes weighty, technical tomes released by three "working groups" released earlier this year, have already been circulated. But scientific experts and government delegates in Valencia planned to spend most of the week hammering out a final text line-by-line. As a synthesis, or executive summary, of earlier reports, the new document is unlikely to contain any revelations or findings not mentioned in the previous working group reports. However, its value lies in what points scientists choose to include and emphasize - and their direct application to the most crucial policy questions. The drama will culminate, if all goes as planned, in a Saturday press conference in Valencia. That press conference, which will include UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, will be available live by satellite feed and Webcast. IPCC PRESS INFORMATION L. Bernstein, University of North Carolina at Asheville David Hawkins, Natural Resources Defense Council Jonathan Pershing, World Resources Institute Cynthia E. Rosenzweig, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies Susan Solomon, NOAA OAR Stephen Schneider, Stanford University Ronald J. Stouffer, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Gary Yohe, Wesleyan University OTHER SOURCES FOR VALENCIA BACKGROUND AND UPDATES As Congress members and international diplomats roll up their sleeves for serious efforts at action in coming months, a final "synthesis" report from the top U.N. climate science body will brief them this week. The report, to be released Saturday, Nov. 17, 2007, in Valencia, Spain, by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will distill decades of laborious science into a comparative handful of relevant pages.
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