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We encourage your correspondence, and although we cannot print all that we receive, we will include at least one short, perhaps edited, letter per issue. Dear WeatherZineIn response to the article by Thomas Birkland (Earthquakes and Weather: Lessons for Policy and Science, April 2000 WeatherZine), how timely. I had just watched the Nova produced Frontline special last night (4/18), "What's Up With the Weather?" It is quite possible that a group approach "focused on the needs of policy makers" may be more successful at this point in time as public awareness on the issue of the weather impacts of climate change increases. After showing the Senate passing a resolution 95 to ZERO against the Kyoto agreement, Congress may just need something that it can vote FOR as an alternative, to show it is responding. On the other hand, to continue with the theme of heretical notions (Six Heretical Notions About Weather Policy, April 2000 WeatherZine), if the considerable sum already spent on climate change research can come up with no better than somewhere between a 1 and 8 degree average global increase in temperature over 100 years (if I have stated it correctly), this may generate some resistance? Regardless, politics is the mechanism, flawed as it is, whereby we decide how our money gets spent. I would suggest that this particular issue is one where the presidential candidates have totally different views, and the potential success of a Weather Research Institute proposal could be expected to be received more "warmly" by one than the other. — Amy Sebring Comments? thunder@ucar.edu WeatherZine #22 Home Page
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