date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 13:23:43 -0500 from: Rwatson@worldbank.org subject: Synthesis Report (SYR): Summary for Policymakers to: "Robert Watson" , "Rajendra Pachauri" , "Tomihiro Taniguchi" , "John Houghton" , "Osvaldo Canziani" , "Bert Metz" , "Mohan Munasinghe" , "Michael Prather" , "Robert Scholes" , "John F B Mitchell" , "Thomas Stocker" , "Daniel L Albritton" , "Ulrich Cubasch" , "Stephen Schneider" , "Murari Lal" , "Zbigniew Kundzewicz" , "Barrie Pittock" , "Christopher Magadza" , "Habiba Gitay" , "T. Barker" , "J.R. Moreira" , "J.B. Robinson" , "I.A. Bashmakov" , "R.G. Richels" , "D. Zhou" , "Ian Noble" , "Narasimhan Sundararaman" , "Renate Christ" , "David Griggs" , "Neil Leary" , "Rob Swart" , "Isabel Alegre" , "Dan Albritton" , "Tom Karl" , "Bob Scholes" , "Michael Prather" , "Joyce Penner" , "Thomas Stocker" , "Bryant McAvaney" , "Ulrich Cubasch" , "Bruce Hewitson" , "John Church" , "Jonathan Gregory" , "Francis Zwiers" , "Sir John Houghton" , "John Mitchell" , "Joanna Haigh" , "Dr M J Salinger" , "Fons Baede" , "Fons Baede" , "Chris Folland" , "Colin Prentice" , "Colin Prentice" , "V Ramaswamy" , "Jerry Meehl" , "Filippo Giorgi" , "David Karoly" , "Linda Mearns" , "Mike Hulme" , "Berrien Moore" , "Steve Schneider" , "QK Ahmad" , "Tim Carter" , "Nigel Arnell" , "Liu Chunzhen" , "Habiba Gitay" , "Bill Easterling" , "Alla Tsyban" , "Alla Tsyban" , "Tom Wilbanks" , "Pier Vellinga" , "Tony McMichael" , "Chris Magadza" , "Paul Desanker" , "Murari Lal" , "Murari Lal" , "Hideo Harasawa" , "Barrie Pittock" , "Barrie Pittock" , "Zbigniew Kundzewicz" , "Martin Parry" , "Luis Mata" , "Luis Mata" , "Stewart Cohen" , "Oleg Anisimov" , "Graham Sem" , "Graham Sem" , "Barry Smit" , "Joel Smith" , "D.H. Bouille" , "I.A. Bashmakov" , "J.A. Sathaye" , "J.B. Robinson" , "J.C. Hourcade" , "K. Halsnaes" , "K. Halsnaes" , "L. Srivastava" , "R.A. Sedjo" , "T. Banuri" , "T. Barker" , "J.R. Moreira" , "Rich Richels" , "D.Zhou" , "A. Markandya" , "C.J. Jepma" , "C.J. Jepma" , "F.L. Toth" , "J.P. Weyant" , "M.J. Mwandosya" , "P.E. Kauppi" , "W.R. Moomaw" , "W.R. Moomaw" , "P.R. Shukla" , "T. Morita" , "Lenny Berstein" Dear core and extended team members of the IPCC Synthesis Report, I truly appreciate all the effort that you are expending on preparing the IPCC Synthesis Report. I had planned to have a short SPM ready for your review by now but I decided that I needed to better understand the key messages from each of the Working groups before the 5-7 page report could be finished. Hence, I would greatly appreciate it if you could review this material - big messages not fine tuning the text. I have taken the 100-page report and attempted to extract what I believe are the key messages in a 26-page summary (14,000 words). Each paragraph starts with an italicized bolded sentence which is meant to be the key take home message of the paragraph (I have attached a document that only has these italicized headings for easy reading). I did not try to limit myself to 5-7 pages (6,500 words), but rather attempted to extract all the key messages knowing the resulting document would be too long (in particular questions 5, 6 and 9). I need to know whether I have managed to identify the key messages for each question, because they will be the basis of the SPM (I also need to know which messages are less important and can be deleted for the SPM). When you redraft the answers to the questions hopefully this will assist you in seeing what I thought were the take-home messages. I have also attached a shortened version of question 2, which is about the right length for the SPM - please review, especially those of you involved in question 2 -- does the table work (needs to be printed with 6.5 inch width). The WG I extended writing team had an excellent meeting in China, where they focussed on identifying the key messages for each question (relevant to WG I) and appropriate figures and tables (many of these were new "synthesized" figures and tables. The key to success for the Synthesis Report and the SPM will be punchy take home messages, and thoughtful tables and figures. Would you please send me comments by Friday, February 2. I think that the key to success will be a few well-crafted tables and figures. As soon as I receive your comments, I will write a 5-7 page SPM. I have attached three documents, without any figures (you can almost certainly guess which figures I am referencing): (See attached file: SPM-Syn-Question 2-short version.doc)(See attached file: SPM Headlines - no figures.doc)(See attached file: Version 1-SPM-SYN-no figures.doc) Thanks in advance Bob ________________________________________________________________________ Robert T. Watson, Chief Scientist & Director, ESSD - The World Bank 1818 H Street, NW - MSN MC4-408, Washington, DC 20433 - USA Phone: +1 202 473-6965 - Fax: +1 202 522-3292 - E-mail: rwatson@worldbank.org Attachment Converted: "c:\eudora\attach\SPM-Syn-Question 2-short version.doc" Attachment Converted: "c:\eudora\attach\SPM Headlines - no figures.doc" Attachment Converted: "c:\eudora\attach\Version 1-SPM-SYN-no figures.doc"