date: Wed Sep 27 13:54:55 2000 from: Mike Hulme subject: Re: Solar UV to: Michael McIntyre Nice one! I also saw the story and was dismayed at the spin being placed. I'll be interested in any replies you get. Mike At 13:12 27/09/00 +0100, you wrote: For Dr Paal Brekke, SOHO Project, ESA/NASA. Dear Dr Brekke, Please forgive this among doubtless hundreds of others. Did the Sunday Times of London misquote you as saying that "our evidence suggests [carbon taxes] will not be much help in keeping the Earth cool"? They also quote you as saying that a UV-induced increase in ozone is the main cause of global warming. Did you, and if so what's the evidence? In any case, please tell me where I can see your evidence for the increase in UV over the past century or more. Yours sincerely, Michael McIntyre PS I realize that solar magnetic effects have been monitored over a long period, but surely that's several (model-dependent) steps away from quantifying terrestrial radiative-photochemical impacts? ********************************************************************** Professor M. E. McIntyre MAE FRS Centre for Atmospheric Science at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics Silver St Cambridge CB3 9EW, United Kingdom Fax +44-1223-337918 Tel +44-1223-337871/0 & +44-1223-565283 8-9pm UK time email mem@damtp.cam.ac.uk; secretary tc228@damtp.cam.ac.uk (Teresa Cronin) [1]http://www.atm.damtp.cam.ac.uk/mcintyre/ A SPECIAL REQUEST: email attachments, especially those from Microsoft Word (cf. [2]http://www.opensource.org/halloween/), spread viruses and are a big nuisance for me personally. May I commend the virtues, and efficiency, of stable open standards such as line-length-limited ASCII, or, failing that, encodings that are standard in GNU/Linux systems? **********************************************************************