date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 13:38:23 -0500 from: tom crowley subject: March + to: tbarnett-ul@ucsd.edu, tcrowley@ocean.tamu.edu, klaus.hasselmann@dkrz.de, hegerl@bjerknes.tamu.edu, p.jones@uea.ac.uk, jtkon@ncar.ucar.edu, bsanter@pcmdi.llnl.gov, taylor13@llnl.gov, sfbtett@meto.gov.uk, m.r.allen@rl.ac.uk, td@gfdl.gov, paleo@cox-internet.com Tim et al. some additional points to what Gabi made: - I prefer Hamburg to Luneburg - its a very pleasant place to visit - with respect to AGU we will need to decide soon as we both submitted abstracts to Ben and Simon's session - I agree with Phil on the solar crowd - basically I think most of them act like nuts - they are so eager to justify their own discipline that they turn a blind eye to greenhouse arguments and seem to completely ignore basic ideas like the principal of parsimony. There are a few exceptions, Judith Lean and Klaus Frohlich - I don't know the others listed It is virtually a waste of time talking to most of them.............. And I am someone who thinks longterm solar variability influences climate! Tom Thomas J. Crowley Dept. of Oceanography Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-3146 979-845-0795 979-847-8879 (fax) 979-845-6331 (alternate fax)