“Disaster is we only get 250 and they ended up getting 400.”
The e-mails are below.
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date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 12:38:42 +0100
from: Rob Swart
subject: Re: addresses
to: Mike Hulme
Mike,
Let’s go for the numbers! I will check Norwegian and Greek names with the
NRP secretariat and try to find a way to get the email-addresses in addition
to the surface mail addresses.
Rob
At 09:37 AM 10/14/97 +0100, you wrote:
>Joe and Rob,
>
>We currently have 497 email addresses in our database, with another
>few dozen to go. The ranking is as follows:
>
>UK 119
>Neth 105
>Germany 79
>France 34
>Italy 19
>Unidentified 19
>Spain 16
>Switz 16
>Sweden 15
>Poland 10
>Portugal 10
>Belgium 9
>Finland 9
>
>plus others 37
>
>I think we especially need more contacts for Greeks (1) and Norway (1). Any
>suggestions?? I am not including people with fax numbers only since this
>becomes
>to messy and time-consuming for us.
>
>Joe and Rob – you seem to have contrasting views about the inclusivity of this
>process. Joe going for quantity and Rob for quality. How do we reconcile?
> There
>are arguments both ways, but I think I tend to go for quantity (we avoid
>having
>to act as judge of competence and we safeguard ourselves against the skeptics
>getting a similar letter with alternate views signed by more scientists
>than us!!
>Disaster is we only get 250 and they ended up getting 400. In this sense the
>media are only interested in numbers.
>
>What do you both think?
>
>About timing … Joe, we are partly in the hands of WWF here. They are
>putting
>money up to organise this and make sure the press come along and their view
>at
>present is late Nov. I will wait for their formal response, but I’m
>inclined to
>take their advice on this. They are the experts here ….
>
>Would it help to email you our Excel file with all the addresses in for you
>to fill in any obvious personal omissions?
>
>Mike
>
>
>
>
>
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>Dr Mike Hulme tel: +44 1603 593162
>Climatic Research Unit fax: +44 1603 507784
>School of Environmental Sciences email: m.hulme@uea.ac.uk
>University of East Anglia web site: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~mikeh/
wwf …. JUST A BUNCH OF ECO-ZEALOTS.
“About timing … Joe, we are partly in the hands of WWF here. They are
putting money up to organise this and make sure the press come along and their view at present is late Nov. I will wait for their formal response, but I’m inclined to take their advice on this. They are the experts here ….
smoking gun IMHO….
Do they get to mate with more females when they achieve bigger numbers? Or more virgins in heaven?
Scientists or activists? One of the two is suppose to be objective, I will let you guess which…