date: Thu Aug  5 17:47:59 1999
from: Mike Hulme <m.hulme@uea.ac.uk>
subject: Re: FW: Warming Sceptics
to: Philip Eden <philip.eden@bbc.co.uk>

Philip,

Yes, these sorts of interviews are always unsatisfactory.

I know nothing about Abrams or his company, but I know he is not alone!!

There are a number of documents like the one you mention around, but of course the skeptics will always shift ground so nothing provides the definitive knock-down argument.  The difficulty is we could spend all our time doing this and not advance the science any further.  A bit like the GM anarchists who destroy the fields of crops which are being tested to find out just whether or not there *is* a risk from GMOs - it's self-defeating in the end.

Regards,

Mike

At 10:51 04/08/99 +0100, you wrote:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:	Philip Eden 
>> Sent:	Wednesday, August 04, 1999 10:13 AM
>> To:	'mike.hulme@uea.ac.uk'
>> Subject:	Warming Sceptics
>> 
>> Mike
>> 
>> Thanks for taking part in the Global Warming thing yesterday
>> morning. I'm sorry the treatment is always so superficial on
>> these occasions, but that I suppose is the level of the public
>> debate.
>> 
>> Nevertheless, the item did bring one sceptic out of the 
>> woodwork.
>> 
>> The gentleman concerned is called Bernard Abrams, his
>> company is called Environmental Monitoring and Analysis
>> and he is based in Cheltenham.
>> 
>> Have you come across him? If you know where he's coming
>> from, any vested interests, etc, I would be very grateful ... 
>> indeed, I would be interested in any list of sceptics you
>> may have.
>> 
>> Do you have, or have you ever thought of producing, a
>> rebuttal document outlining in simple terms the fallacies
>> in the various arguments that the sceptics use?  I'm sure
>> weather forecasters, specialists journalists, etc, would
>> be very grateful to lay their hands on something like that.  
>> 
>> Best wishes
>> Philip Eden
>> Radio 5-Live
>
