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From:- John Latham [lat...@ucar.edu] 12/10/12 To The Guardian personnel involved: About 60 Years ago I started to subscribe to the Manchester Guardian, as it then was. In my view without question, it was by far the best of the UK newspapers. It was enlightened and dispassionate, with brilliant writers. I still (somewhere) have clippings from those days. As a student in London I was idiotically proud of the fact that the greatest newspaper in the land was based in the North of England, which is where I came from. So it is shocking, sad, and bewildering to me that the Guardian would publish such biased, shrill, utterly inaccurate and irresponsible portrayals of geoengineering, the principal players in this field and their motivations. [I am also working in this field, on a topic called Marine Cloud Brightening]. All the scientists that I know in this arena, and unquestionably those people whose motives you have maligned, are concerned, brilliant and objective scientists, whose goal is to perform research to establish whether or not geoengineering – in some form or another – might be of value in ameliorating climate change or providing time within which a clean form of energy might be developed. These people are not committed to geoengineering. I think the Guardian owes it to both the scientists insulted and endangered, and to its hitherto outstanding reputation, to publish openly (with apologies) a detailed retraction of those statements made which are false and abusive. Yours Sincerely, John Latham. John Latham Address: P.O. Box 3000,MMM,NCAR,Boulder,CO 80307-3000 Email: lat...@ucar.edu or john.latha...@manchester.ac.uk Tel: (US-Work) 303-497-8182 or (US-Home) 303-444-2429 or (US-Cell) 303-882-0724 or (UK) 01928-730-002 http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/people/latham -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en.
