cc: n.nicholls@bom.gov.au date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 08:01:00 +1000 from: Neville Nicholls subject: Re: TV Stars!! to: ckfolland@meto.gov.uk, p.jones@uea.ac.uk, m.hulme@uea.ac.uk, j.salinger@niwa.cri.nz (Jim Salinger) Hi Guys, I haven't seen you on TV, but you are also the lead item on Australian ABC radio news and current affairs this morning. Well done (and nicely timed). Phil, I look forward to some interesting reactions from our mutual friend John Daly on this! Regards, Papa Nino > Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 07:11:46 +1300 > To: ckfolland@meto.gov.uk, p.jones@uea.ac.uk, m.hulme@uea.ac.uk > From: j.salinger@niwa.cri.nz (Jim Salinger) > Subject: TV Stars!! > Cc: n.nicholls@bom.gov.au, m.manning@niwa.cri.nz > Dear Chris, Phil and Mike > > I see you are now competing with Neville, except none of you were labelled > the 'father of global warming'. > > Well done - the NZ media is running hot, and it was nice to see you all on > BBC World at 6 am this morning, as the lead story "British Scientists are > about to announce that 1997 is on course to be the warmest year on record" > and that "a change in climate is happening". I liked Chris showing curves > of warming in the South Pacific, and Mike you looked very much like the > Pope making very authoritive pronouncements! > > We have re- released the material this morning, and it is now the No 1 item > on Radio New Zealand news. This is very refreshing after all the recycled > bunkem the skeptics have been putting out this week before Kyoto, and I am > sure our Minister for the Environment, Simon Upton will like it, as he was > getting frustrated at the industry lobbey, and the pro-industry press in > NZ. > > Neville probably hasn't told you, but Australia seems to be recording > regularly 45 C somewhere in the continent - these must be near records for > the time of year. > > Must away, but well done. > > Antipodean Jim > > ******************************************************************* > Dr Jim Salinger Tel: (+64 9) 375 2090 (office reception) > NIWA, Tel: (+64 9) 375 2053 (direct dial) > 269 Khyber Pass Road Fax: (+64 9) 375 2051 > Newmarket, Auckland E-mail: j.salinger@niwa.cri.nz > > Postal Address: P. O. Box 109 - 695 > Newmarket > Auckland, New Zealand > > ******************************************************************* > > > > Neville Nicholls Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre Postal address: BMRC, PO Box 1289K, Melbourne 3001, AUSTRALIA Phone: 61 3 9669 4407 Fax: 61 3 9669 4660 Street address: BMRC, Floor 13, 150 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne 3000, AUSTRALIA Email: N.Nicholls@bom.gov.au Web page: http://www.bom.gov.au/bmrc/mrlr/nnn/nnn.htm