cc: sari.kovats@lshtm.ac.uk, m.hulme@uea.ac.uk date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 10:27:35 GMT from: Graham Bentham subject: Re: Jan 15 mtg: summary proposal in advance? to: "t.mcmichael" Tony, Yes I am happy to take the lead on 1 and 6. I'll be in touch with Sari about 1 early in the New Year. I am due to see Brian Diffey at a DETR meeting in January so I will ask him about whether he wants to be involved then: in the meantime I will sort out my own thoughts on the study design. The "new thoughts" that Mike Hulme and I have come up with are really mostly tactical to try to try to shape at least a couple of proposals so that they could be seen to be NERC-led and therefore hopefully attractive enough for them to put up some money. The suggestion is to have one on climate change and air pollution (I will liaise with Peter Brimblecombe and Steve Dorling at UEA on this). The other would be something that Mike and CRU could take a lead on and this would focus on extreme events (I guess this would include bits of number 3 and 4, so we will have to sort out the question of overlap at the meeting). Have a nice Christmas, Graham Professor Graham Bentham Director, Centre for Environmental Risk School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, England Telephone 01603 592561 Fax: 01603 507719 e-mail: g.bentham@uea.ac.uk