date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:41:28 +0100
from: Keith Briffa <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>
subject: Fwd: UNcertainty
to: t.osborn@uea.ac.uk,Phil Jones <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>

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>From: "Tim Jickells" <t.jickells@uea.ac.uk>
>To: <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>,
>         "'J Andrews'" <J.Andrews@uea.ac.uk>,
>         "'Alastair Grant'" <A.Grant@uea.ac.uk>,
>         "'Burgess Jacquelin Prof \(ENV\)'" <Jacquie.Burgess@uea.ac.uk>,
>         "'Andrew Watkinson'" <a.watkinson@uea.ac.uk>,
>         "'Turner Kerry Prof \(ENV\)'" <R.K.Turner@uea.ac.uk>
>Subject: UNcertainty
>Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:33:39 +0100
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>I attach an attempt at trying to write up the discussion we had on 
>Wednesday about a big idea for the VC for ENV. I have called it 
>Uncertainty but given the possible resultant strap line of "we don't 
>know what we're doing" I think we need a better title!. I have tried 
>to imagine something that could stretch across much of ENV and in 
>the process I have strayed into areas so far beyond my knowledge 
>that there are heresies in here of considerable scale I suspect. I 
>beg your indulgence and invite you to correct these and also 
>consider if you still think this idea has merit in the cold light of 
>day. I have aimed to keep this short and of course the devil is in 
>the detail, but any pitch for the funding will initially deal with 
>the idea not the detail. If there is a consensus to move this 
>forward then we'll need to think how to do that.
>Tim
>
>Professor Tim Jickells
>School of Environmental Sciences
>University of East Anglia
>Norwich NR4 7TJ UK
>tel 01603593117, fax 01603 591327
>

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Professor Keith Briffa,
Climatic Research Unit
University of East Anglia
Norwich, NR4 7TJ, U.K.

Phone: +44-1603-593909
Fax: +44-1603-507784

http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/people/briffa/ 
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