The Climate Science Rapid Response Team is a service to provide accurate information on climate science in response to media and government queries, by matching members of the media and government with questions, to the working climate scientists best able to answer. "Nearly all of [the participating climate scientists] are members of University faculties in departments involving some aspect of climate science or in government laboratories (e.g. NASA, NOAA), both in the US and abroad."

The "matchmakers" - John Abraham

John Abraham (professor)

Dr. John Abraham is an Associate Professor of thermal and fluid Sciences at the University of St. Thomas School of Engineering, Minnesota. His area of research includes thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid flow, numerical simulation, and energy...

, Scott Mandia

Scott Mandia

Scott A. Mandia is Professor of Earth and Space Sciences and Assistant Chair of the Physical Sciences Department at Suffolk County Community College, Long Island, New York, USA. He has been teaching introductory meteorology and climatology courses for 22 years. He received his M.S. – Meteorology...

 and Ray Weymann - formed the group in November 2010.

Organizations making inquiries

By December 2010, the group reported having fielded inquiries from organizations that included The Guardian

The Guardian

The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...

, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....

, CNN

CNN

Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...

, National Public Radio, and the Associated Press

Associated Press

The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...

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CSRRT recommended resources

Although the group only does scientist "matchmaking" for the press or government, it does recommend two resources for public inquiries, Central Coast Climate Science Education and Skeptical Science. It also provides a page of other recommended sources.

Other Q&A efforts from mainstream climate scientists

During the United Nations climate talks in December 2009 and 2010, the American Geophysical Union

American Geophysical Union

The American Geophysical Union is a nonprofit organization of geophysicists, consisting of over 50,000 members from over 135 countries. AGU's activities are focused on the organization and dissemination of scientific information in the interdisciplinary and international field of geophysics...

 (AGU) has offered a Climate Q&A Service for journalists and conference attendees, drawing in 2010 from a pool of over 700 AGU members - and strictly limiting the questions to matters of science, not policy or evaluating risk.

Resources

• climaterapidresponse.org home page
• climaterapidresponse.org recommended resources
• Press Release from the Climate Science Rapid Response Team, posted 2010-12-14 by Scott Mandia
  Scott Mandia
  Scott A. Mandia is Professor of Earth and Space Sciences and Assistant Chair of the Physical Sciences Department at Suffolk County Community College, Long Island, New York, USA. He has been teaching introductory meteorology and climatology courses for 22 years. He received his M.S. – Meteorology...
  
  . ("The team of scientists now numbers greater than 100...")