Scientists throughout UC and its affiliated national labs contributed to the work of the U.N. climate change panel that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore.

Dozens of UC global warming experts have participated in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports over the last two decades. Those included Richard Sommerville of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, who was a lead author of the fourth international report issued in February. Others from Scripps included professors Lynne Talley, V. Ramanathan, Jeff Severinghaus and Nobel Laureate Mario Molina.

More than 40 staff members from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison have made major contributions to all four of the panel's reports, from the first assessment report in 1990 to the 2007 report.

From UC Berkeley, researchers included Inez Fung, William D. Collins, Norm Miller and Dan Kammen. Fung and Kammen are co-directors of UC Berkeley's Institute of the Environment. Collins and Fung are also part of the Earth Sciences Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Other Berkeley Lab scientists who contributed to the global warming report include Mark Levine, Surabi Menon, Evan Mills, Lynn Price, Jayant Sathaye and Ernst Worrell of the Environmental Energy Technologies Division.

UC Irvine participating climate scientists included Donald Blake, Michael Goulden, Gudrun Magnusdottir, Michael Prather, James Randerson, Soroosh Sorooshian, Susan Trumbore, Stan Tyler, Jin-Yi Yu and Charlie Zender. Charles Kolstad, the Bren Professor of Environmental Economics at UC Santa Barbara, was a report author and doctoral student Nicholas Burger a contributor. In addition, UC Santa Barbara economics professor Stephen J. DeCanio was a co-lead author of a chapter of an IPCC report published in 2000.