date: Thu Dec 4 12:33:42 2008 from: Keith Briffa subject: Re: Dissertation thoughts and PhD application to: R.Bellamy@uea.ac.uk fine At 12:10 04/12/2008, you wrote: Hi Keith, I went to see Tim Lenton yesterday and discussed a few ideas with him. An idea we both really liked was identifying potenital social tipping points arising from physical tipping point forcings. A broad topic, I've been thinking about refining it to identifying potential tipping points in politically unstable regimes. I'm also compiling my application to Neil Adger's PhD entitled 'the values of climate change adaptation: a case study of adaptation practices and limits.' Would you mind being one of my referees? The deadline is tomorrow so I will be handing in my application to the admissions office this afternoon. Cheers, Rob -- Professor Keith Briffa, Climatic Research Unit University of East Anglia Norwich, NR4 7TJ, U.K. Phone: +44-1603-593909 Fax: +44-1603-507784 [1]http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/people/briffa/