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Obscure Farm Bill Provision Blacks Out Agricultural Data [1]

The USDA is interpreting a provision in the 2008 Farm Bill so broadly that it may amount to a FOIA exemption for most information about individual agricultural operations.
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Ronald G. Prinn
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Expertise: General. Phone:(617)253-2452. E-mail. [8] Web site. [9] Publications and Bio. [10]

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Climate Change Impacts [12]

Christopher Field

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Extreme Weather, Proposed Hurricane-Climate Link [13]

Judith Curry
Georgia Institute of Technology. Expertise: Ocean and atmospheric thermodynamics; polar clouds; hurricanes. Phone:(404) 894-3955 (Secretary); (404) 803-2012 (Cell). E-mail. [14] Web site. [15] Publications. [16] Bio. [17]

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Atmospheric Chemistry — Stratospheric Ozone [18]

Daniel L. Albritton
NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory. Phone: (303) 497-5785. E-mail. [19] Web site. Publications. Bio [20] (scroll down).

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Oceanography and Ocean-Climate Links — Sudden Climate Change [21]

Tim Barnett
Scripps Institute of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego. Expertise: Oceanography, ENSO, Detection and attribution of anthropogenic climate change. Phone: (858)534-3223. E-mail: tbarnett@ucsd.edu [22] or timdotbarnett@ucsd.edu. [23] Bio. [24]

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Climate Change [11]
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Natural Climate Variability (All Time Scales) [25]

John Kutzbach
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Center for Climatic Research. Phone: (608) 262-0392. E-mail. [26] Web site. [27] Publications. [28]

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Climate Change [11]
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Carbon Cycle, Carbon Emissions, Biogeochemical Cycles [29]

Richard A. Houghton
Woods Hole Research Center (Senior Scientist). Phone: (508) 540-9900 x116. E-mail. [30] Web site. [31] Publications and Bio: Woods Hole Research Center [32] and US Climate Change Science Program. [33]

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Cryosphere (Glaciology, Poles, Ice Sheets, Sea Ice) [34]

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Observed Climate Change, Temperature Record (last 1,000 years) [35]

John R. Christy

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