date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:06:04 +0100 from: "Carol Stiff" subject: RE: Effects of fossil fuel emissions on climate change to: "Phil Jones" Hi Phil, Thanks for coming back to me so promptly. I hope your trip went well. I have forwarded your e mail to my student Karamjit Gill. He will be contacting you this week via e mail to chat about his dissertation on transport and climate change. Many Thanks carol ___________________________________________________________________________________________ From: Phil Jones [mailto:p.jones@uea.ac.uk] Sent: 15 March 2007 13:56 To: Carol Stiff Subject: Re: Effects of fossil fuel emissions on climate change Carol, I'm just back from the US. I'll be off home soon. I'm in tomorrow, but busy with several meetings. I'm off Sunday for all of next week. If the week of March 26 is OK then it'll have to wait till then. Attached is the IPCC SPM for WG1 (The Science) that came out on Feb 2 in Paris. There are two other WGs yet to report (April and May) on Impacts and Policy Issues/Mitigation. There is only one view worth listening to - and that is what IPCC says on the subject. Climate change is happening, it will continue to get warmer and all the things said in the SPM. I understand how awkward it is when the public and fellow scientists see programmes like that produced by Channel 4 a week or so ago. There were barely any climate scientists on the programme and the few that were had their views distorted. Why the media (both paper and TV) want to portray divisions is beyond me. Amongst climate scientists (and I know I define who these are above, so it may seem awkward) there is almost total unanimity on the fact that the climate is changing and will continue to warm. Even the measures proposed in Britain don't go far enough to stop most of the effects. This is a personal opinion. Aviation is the fastest growing sector for emissions, but still quite small. We have done without mass flying until recently. It seems as though we could do without it now. This is hypocracy on my behalf, having just flown in from the US and off to Korea on Sunday. One was a meeting of a project and the next is to talk to the Korean Met Society, so I'm not practicising what I'm preaching. Cheers Phil At 12:05 15/03/2007, you wrote: Hi Professor Jones, I am senior lecturer in B.A (hons) Design in Business @UCE. One of my final year students is researching the impact of European transport emissions upon climate change and global warming. There have been several contentious arguments put forward recently, both in the press and on the radio which offer conflicting opinions regarding this subject. As one of the leading experts in this field, I was wondering if you could possibly spare my student ten minutes to discuss your views either via e-mail or telephone. I appreciate that time is precious but would be grateful for your assistance. My student's name is Karamjit Gill. Many Thanks Carol Stiff FCSD Prof. Phil Jones Climatic Research Unit Telephone +44 (0) 1603 592090 School of Environmental Sciences Fax +44 (0) 1603 507784 University of East Anglia Norwich Email p.jones@uea.ac.uk NR4 7TJ UK ----------------------------------------------------------------------------