date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 11:45:29 -0700 (MST) from: Tom Wigley subject: Support for CRU to: Mike Hulme Dear Mike, Bob Harriss (ESIG Director) says he'll be glad to support the CRU et al. bid -- he may have already written to you. Eileen Claussen (Pew) told me that Michael Grubb had also contacted her. She thinks he is a jerk; but because of the formal contact from both groups, she thought it best to support neither. Too bad. By the way, if you want to play an underhanded trick, you could try to get some *real* economists to express their opinions on Michael. I know that Rich Richels and Jae Edmonds have a very low opinion of him (as do I). He has no formal background in economics, even though he claims to do credible economic analyses. Basically, he is a "greenie"; and he bends his "science" to suit his ideological agenda. I don't know how you can alert the people who are judging the two bids to this: but it may be helpful to know the facts. For what it is worth, I have a similarly low opinion of John Woods and John Mason -- a couple clever "know-it-all"s in my view. Cheers, Tom ********************************************************** Tom M.L. Wigley Senior Scientist ACACIA Program Director National Center for Atmospheric Research P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307-3000 USA Phone: 303-497-2690 Fax: 303-497-2699 E-mail: wigley@ucar.edu Web: http://www.acacia.ucar.edu **********************************************************