From	Tim Osborn	Date	Wed Dec 12 09:29:29 2001
To	Myles Allen
Subject	RE: RE: Tyndall proposal
At 00:03 12/12/01, you wrote: Hi Tim and Phil, I'm afraid I missed their deadline -- I'm presenting at the Royal Society meeting on IPCC tomorrow, and that had to take priority. If Simon is interested enough to bend some rules quietly, I could certainly get him an outline proposal by Friday, but if not, it'll have to wait until their next call. It's frustrating, but it can't be helped. NERC just have too many calls. As Simon points out, the Tyndall Centre's style may be a more top-down, regulatory approach anyway, and good luck to them. Politically negotiated emission targets may work, but I have to confess to having doubts. Perhaps I have spent too much time talking to Dick Lindzen to believe in central planning any more. Myles, by "Simon" do you mean Simon Shackley? I don't think he'd be able to bend the rules since the proposals have to go direct to the Tyndall Centre's administrator. As you say, they are being more directive (is that a word?) in what they want this time round, and since your idea isn't central to what they think they want I doubt whether they'd be prepared to bend the rules. Hope the Roy Soc goes well - I hear they're charging 100 quid to listen to you - a bargain! Tim