ANN ARBOR—At least eight University of Michigan researchers contributed to the latest set of climate change reports issued by the United Nations-sponsored panel that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President Al Gore today.

The Nobel citation states that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a global network of some 2,000 scientists, has produced two decades of scientific reports that have “created an ever-broader informed consensus about the connection between human activities and global warming.”

U-M researchers who helped write or review the 2007 reports include:

? Rosina Bierbaum, dean of the School of Natural Resources and Environment. Bierbaum led four U.S. delegations to IPCC gatherings in Shanghai, Montreal, Costa Rica and Mexico City. She also served as an adviser on Gore’s climate-change film, “An Inconvenient Truth.” Contact Bierbaum at (734) 764-2550 or rbierbau@umich.edu.

? Henry Pollack, emeritus professor of geological sciences, was a contributing author on the paleoclimatology chapter in the 2007 IPCC reports. He is also a scientific adviser to Gore’s Climate Project, an ongoing effort to train volunteers who can spread the climate-change message related in “An Inconvenient Truth.” Contact Pollack at (734) 763 0084 or hpollack@umich.edu.

? Joyce Penner, professor of atmospheric science, studies clouds, aerosols and their effects on climate change. She was a coordinating lead author of a chapter in one of the 2001 IPCC reports and a lead author of a chapter in the 2007 reports. Two graduate students of
Penner’s?Minghuai Wang and Li Xu?also contributed to the latest round of reports. To reach Penner: (734) 936-0519 or penner@umich.edu.

? Natalia Andronova, research scientist in the Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, was a contributing author of a chapter titled “Understanding and Attributing Climate Change.” To reach Andronova: (734) 763-5833 or natand@umich.edu.

? Maria Carmen Lemos, an associate professor at the School of Natural Resources and Environment, contributed to a chapter in the “Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability” volume. She was also on a 15-member National Research Council panel that recently concluded that the U.S. government’s climate science program is doing poorly at relating its findings to policymakers and the public. To reach Lemos: (734) 764-9315 or lemos@umich.edu.

? Detlef Sprinz, visiting professor of political science, reviewed the “Mitigation and Climate Change” volume in this year’s reports. He is a senior scientist with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany, and a vice-chair of the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency, Copenhagen. To reach Sprinz: (734) 647-3247 or dsprinz@umich.edu.