date: Mon Aug 23 15:52:14 2004 from: Phil Jones subject: Re: Tonight with Trevor Macdonald to: "Murphy Melissa (COMM) k816" Melissa, There shouldn't be someone else at UEA with different views - at least not a climatologist. It would also look odd if the two people interviewed with opposite views were from UEA. Maybe you should reply and say we can't find one, saying that most climate experts would take the same view as Dave. The programme could easily dredge someone up, but they wouldn't be an expert on the climate. This is the whole point of the debate recently. The people the media find to put the contrary view are not climate experts. Phil At 14:54 23/08/2004, you wrote: Hello All, Next Monday night the "Tonight with Trevor Macdonald" show will be about climate change. Dr David Viner is going to be featured on the show, presenting his view that recent extreme weather is due to global warming. I have received a call from David Reddings who is part of the show's team, asking if we have a climate expert who has a different view to Dr Viner - perhaps believing that recent weather has not been caused by global warming but is merely part of the 'natural variability' of the weather. Do we have someone at UEA? Regards, Melissa. Melissa Murphy Communications Assistant Press & PR Office Communications Division University of East Anglia Norwich, NR4 7TJ tel: 01603 592945 fax: 01603 259883 [1]http://comm.uea.ac.uk Prof. Phil Jones Climatic Research Unit Telephone +44 (0) 1603 592090 School of Environmental Sciences Fax +44 (0) 1603 507784 University of East Anglia Norwich Email p.jones@uea.ac.uk NR4 7TJ UK ----------------------------------------------------------------------------