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Climate Change consensus document is made accessible to non-specialists
Brussels, April 9, 2003. GreenFacts Foundation has published a document entitled "Scientific Facts on Climate Change and Global Warming" on its www.greenfacts.org website. This document provides non-specialists with easy access to the scientific consensus found in the Third Assessment Report published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The GreenFacts summaries present the issues in a series of questions and answers in three levels of increasing detail. They also provide validated links to other major science-based information sources. The document introduces the 3-Level Structure, created by the GreenFacts team, enabling readers to easily access different levels of information on the Internet, starting with a brief answer to a question, moving to a second level with a more detailed summary and then clicking to the precise location of the full text in the source document on Level 3. GreenFacts Foundation General Manager, Jacques de Selliers, remarked that: "This structure allows non-specialists like journalists or policy-makers to easily obtain information found in authoritative scientific consensus documents, without having to read complex scientific material or being hindered by political bias". This Climate Change document is the fruit of the GreenFacts publication process. In this process, information is summarized in an accessible language on Level 2 and summarized again in Level 1. It is then reviewed by environmental NGOs and industry stakeholders from GreenFacts Foundation’s Panel of Experts, before being submitted to a peer review by independent specialists. After corrections, the GreenFacts Scientific Board, chaired by Professor Michel Mercier, approved the document for publication. The document is available at http://www.greenfacts.org/studies/climate_change/. French and Spanish versions are presently being finalized on-line. GreenFacts Foundation will soon be releasing similar documents on power lines, lead, cadmium and endocrine disruptors. GreenFacts Foundation asbl is a non-profit organization based in Brussels that summarizes authoritative scientific documents on environment and health matters on the Internet in a language that is accessible to non-specialists. It was formed in December, 2001 by stakeholders from the academe, industrial groups and environmental NGOs concerned about the difficulties of communicating scientific information on environment and health issues. More information can be found at www.greenfacts-organization.org. For further details, contact:
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