date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 12:16:13 -0700 from: "Malcolm Hughes" subject: Re: letter to Senate to: Caspar M Ammann , Raymond Bradley , Keith Briffa , Tom Crowley , Malcolm Hughes , Phil Jones , mann@virginia.edu, jto@u.arizona.edu, omichael@princeton.edu, Tim Osborn , Kevin Trenberth , Tom Wigley Dear Michaels, Count me in. I know that it would be lunacy to start a group edit of your short letter, but you might consider replacing two terms that will be seen as jargon, and may be unduly opaque. You could replace "anthropogenic" with something like "resulting from human actions" and "paleoclimatic" with "studies of ancient (or past) climates". Title, etc.: Malcolm K. Hughes, Professor, Laboratory of Tree-ring Research, University of Arizona Cheers, Malcolm > > Dear fellow Eos co-authors, > > Given the continued assault on the science of climate change by some > on Capitol Hill, Michael and I thought it would be worthwhile to send > this letter to various members of the U.S. Senate, accompanied by a > copy of our Eos article. > > Can we ask you to consider signing on with Michael and me (providing > your preferred title and affiliation). We would like to get this out > ASAP. > > Thanks in advance, > > Michael M and Michael O > > > ____________________________________________________________ > __ > Professor Michael E. Mann > Department of Environmental Sciences, Clark Hall > University of Virginia > Charlottesville, VA 22903 > ______________________________________________________________________ > _ e-mail: mann@virginia.edu Phone: (434) 924-7770FAX: (434) 982-2137 > http://www.evsc.virginia.edu/faculty/people/mann.shtml Malcolm Hughes Professor of Dendrochronology Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721 520-621-6470 fax 520-621-8229