Welcome back to reality! Attached is a letter addressed to the Prime Minister regarding the recent elections in the United States and the UK's national interest in climate change research. The UK's climate change research community invites all researchers to co-sign the letter by following the details below. Please also note that the contents of this email are confidential (within the climate science community) until the letter has been sent (during the week of 16th January).
Please contact Bob Ward <r.e.ward@lse.ac.uk> for additional details and to add yourself as a signatory to the letter.
Best regards,
TJ
Vice-President (2016 - 2017), UK Polar Network
PhD Candidate (SPRI), University of Cambridge
Dear colleagues,
Please find attached the final draft of the letter to the Prime Minister. Many thanks for your contributions to the tremendous team effort in producing this. I am now seeking your help in circulating the letter for signatures.
You will see that I have added the seven initial signatures. I would be grateful if you could now send the letter on to potential signatories. We are aiming for at least 100 signatories.
Please note the following:
1. This is a letter to the Prime Minister from members of the climate change research community about the potential threats to and opportunities for the UK national interest arising from the recent elections in the United States.
2. This letter is open for signature until 16:00 GMT on Friday 13 January 2017. It will be sent to the Prime Minister during the week commencing 16 January.
3. The text of the letter has been finalised and cannot be revised at this stage.
4. The letter should be considered confidential and not for public disclosure at this stage, but it will be made public after it has been sent to the Prime Minister.
5. Those who wish to be listed as signatories must be members of the climate change research community and should email Bob Ward, who is co-ordinating the collection of signatures, on r.e.ward@lse.ac.uk
6. Signatories are signing as individuals and not representatives, but should provide their academic title (eg Professor, Dr etc), any relevant post-nominals (eg (FRMetS), primary job title and primary employer.
7. Signatories should feel free to forward the letter, on a confidential basis, to other members of the climate change research community who may be interested in signing it.
Please let me know if you have any other questions.
Bob
Bob Ward
Policy and Communications Director
Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street
London
UK
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Tel. +44 (0) 20 7107 5413
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Web: http://www.lse.ac.uk/grantham
Twitter: @ret_ward
