cc: ralley@essc.psu.edu, N.Bindoff@utas.edu.au, John.Church@csiro.au, j.m.gregory@reading.ac.uk, James.E.Hansen@nasa.gov, martin.heimann@bgc-jena.mpg.de, b.j.hoskins@reading.ac.uk, weaver@uvic.ca, jean.jouzel@cea.fr, p.jones@uea.ac.uk, Peter.Lemke@awi.de, amanda.lynch@arts.monash.edu.au, meehl@ncar.ucar.edu, Neville.Nicholls@arts.monash.edu.au, Graeme.Pearman@arts.monash.edu.au, randall@atmos.colostate.edu, shs@stanford.edu, gschmidt@giss.nasa.gov, Susan.Solomon@noaa.gov, will.steffen@anu.edu.au, trenbert@ucar.edu, Richard.wood@metoffice.com, francis.zwiers@ec.gc.ca, haug@gfz-potsdam.de, martin.claussen@zmaw.de, jochem.marotzke@zmaw.de, klochte@ifm-geomar.de, c.lequere@uea.ac.uk, mvisbeck@ifm-geomar.de, uriebesell@ifm-geomar.de, d-archer@uchicago.edu, mlm373@psu.edu, ammann@ucar.edu, rbradley@geo.umass.edu, wmc@bas.ac.uk, steig@ess.washington.edu, garidel@marine.rutgers.edu, Michael Molitor , Richard Somerville , Stefan Rahmstorf , Andy Pitman , dkaroly@unimelb.edu.au, rasmus.benestad@met.no, Ronald.Stouffer@noaa.gov, S.Kober@unsw.edu.au, Penny Ajani date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:03:29 +1100 (EST) from: Matthew England subject: RE: 2007 Bali Declaration on Climate Change to: Matthew England Sorry, two points I overlooked earlier: 1/ Once signatures are finalised we will list those signing in alphabetical order, not according to time of sign-on. 2/ We are commissioning an official translation of the Declaration into the top-ten most widely used languages (Chinese, Hindi, ...). These will appear on the web as .pdf links shortly. We do want a global spread of signatures so pls send on suggestions of top scientists from developing nations. Thanks again, Matthew On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Matthew England wrote: > > Dear colleagues, > > Richard Somerville, Stefan Rahmstorf, Andy Pitman, Michael Molitor, > myself and a few others have put together a Declaration on Climate Change > to be released at the upcoming Bali meeting in early December 2007. > There are plans for a major press conference in Bali to release the > declaration - hopefully held on December 6, 2007. > > We are seeking signatures from a limited number of climate scientists from > around the world. This list might ramp up to approx. 80-100 signatures > over the coming weeks. We are inviting national leads to sign - the goal > is quality not quantity. > > Please consider signing this declaration. The declaration is set up so > that you can sign as individuals, not on behalf of your organisation. > The declaration is available for signing at > http://www.climate.unsw.edu.au/bali/ > > Feel free to forward us suggestions of people you'd like to see added to > this list. So that we can keep control of this process, please don't fwd > on this message to explode lists etc. > > *** NOTE: signing is password-protected (password is "climate"). We have > done this to ensure that the list of signatures is manageable and > focussed. This declaration would gather 100,000 signatures if we let it > loose on the wider community. So at this stage, could all correspondence > come back to us. We also want to avoid engaging the media until much > closer to the time of the meeting. > > Thanks for considering this. If you plan to be in Bali on 5, 6, or 7 > December could you also let one of us know? > > Best regards, > Matthew England > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Professor Matthew England > Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory (CEDL) > School of Mathematics & Statistics > The University of New South Wales Telephone: +61-2-9385-7065 > UNSW SYDNEY NSW 2052 Facsimile: +61-2-9385-7123 > Australia E-mail: M.England@unsw.edu.au > For reprints, visit: www.maths.unsw.edu.au/~matthew > Lab website: http://www.cedl.unsw.edu.au/ > Executive Assistant: Penny Ajani P.Ajani@unsw.edu.au > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >