Thanks Santosh! NASA has included our findings in a report that it has prepared for a Congressional hearing and our paper is going to be distributed on Capitol Hill - but as you say I doubt anyone that matters is really listening. Yes I would have had something to contribute to the polemic on global warming in this forum but unfortunately I was in the Antarctica experiencing global warming first hand! Did you see the paper about the Antarctic peninsula melting in the same issue of Science?
>the Eurasian Landmass Is Making the Arabian Sea More >Productive", Joaquim I. Goes, Prasad G. Thoppil, >Helga do R Gomes, and John T. Fasullo. Science 22 >April 2005: 545-547. > Congratulations on the SCIENCE paper! I wish you were here during the crotchety global warming debate on Goanet. We could certainly have used some input from a real environmental scientist, Santosh