cc: lempert@rand.org, Daniel.Sarewitz@asu.edu, p.jones@uea.ac.uk, shs@stanford.edu, wmw@ucar.edu, jmahlman@ucar.edu, manabe@splash.princeton.edu, m.hulme@uea.ac.uk, thomas.lowe@rmit.edu.au, rsomerville@ucsd.edu, penner@umich.edu, covey1@llnl.gov, cwunsch@mit.edu, wallace@atmos.washington.edu, jholdren@whrc.org, hjacoby@mit.edu, jhansen@giss.nasa.gov, pre@stanford.edu, pre@stanford.edu, gschmidt@giss.nasa.gov date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 21:08:13 -0500 from: Andy Revkin subject: Re: 'nonskeptic heretics' or the like to: Ronald Prinn some blogging and my responses below, related to the 'climate middle' story (huffington and grist essentially same. huffington response had to be abridged for space). something for everyone.. a key take-home point, please, is that this story was written mainly for the benefit of the 10s of millions of disengaged or doubtful or simply under-edcuated Americans out there for whom it is NEWS that the only discourse now is among folks who believe human-forced climate change is a huge problem. (as jim hansen said in my story, exclamation point included!) the 'hotter' voices are doing their job well. i'm doing mine. [1]http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/1/2/131839/3289 [2]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-roberts/high-broderism-reaches-th_b_37639.html [3]http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2007/01/02/publiceye/entry2321267.shtml and make sure you read today's piece by michael barbaro on Walmart and lightbulbs. [4]www.nytimes.com/energychallenge ANDREW C. REVKIN The New York Times / Environment 229 West 43d St., NY NY 10036 phone: 212-556-7326 / e-mail: revkin@nytimes.com / fax: 509-357-0965 Arctic book: The North Pole Was Here: [5]www.nytimes.com/learning/globalwarming Amazon book: The Burning Season [6]www.islandpress.org/burning Acoustic-roots band: [7]www.myspace.com/unclewade