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Comment A harsh climate Gregory A Petsko Address: Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454-9110, USA. Email: petsko@ I might as well come right out and say it: I don’t care that there are so many other contentious issues in that whether global warming is caused by manmade greenhouse meeting that this is a relatively minor matter for most of its gas emissions. And neither should you. participants. Nevertheless, Professor Jones has stepped down as head of the CRU pending an internal investigation. Before you start reaching for your laptops, iPhones, and In my view, he should instead have been made to write on BlackBerrys to fire off scathing emails, give me a moment the blackboard 1,000 times: “I will never put anything into to explain why I made this statement and what it really an email or text message that could be embarrassing to me means. I bet that, when I’m through, you will agree with me. or to my organization if it were read by someone else, and if I don’t believe this I should ask Tiger Woods.” This column is being written because of the confluence of two events. One is a meeting in Copenhagen of repre- One of the most sensible things I have read about the sentatives of most of the world’s nations, aimed at formu- climate debate is an opinion piece by Stewart Brand in the lating a new global strategy for dealing with the climate 15 December 2009 edition of The New York Times. He crisis. The talks have ground to a halt