<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Ben,<div><br></div><div>It might just possible have some impact by skipping the questions and registering objector status and reasons on the last page of the survey under "comments"...</div><div>Somehow it would be good to make sure that the boycottee knows that it is being boycotted... If we knew how many people registered their objections, then we could monitor the outcome of their survey and try to hold them accountable at least for recording the conscientious objectors...</div><div><br></div><div>Taking a cue from today's news headlines... 5 people responsible for the collapse of the school building in Molise that killed a classroom full of children in 2002 were just today found guilty... </div><div><br></div><div>:-)</div><div>Marla</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Feb 25, 2009, at 11:59 PM, <a href="mailto:bwisner@igc.org">bwisner@igc.org</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div id="compText" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: black; "><font size="3"><span style="font-family: times, serif; ">RADIX participants may want to think twice about whether the sponsor of this survey, NCAR, has any credibility to so it and to interpret and use the data. They have been systematically stripping away all in house capacity in social science over the past few years, and there was a major controversy over the last stage of that shift toward "hard" science: the elimination of the world class center for social application of climate knowledge founded and led by Dr. Mickey Glantz for decades.</span><br style="font-family: times, serif; "><br style="font-family: times, serif; "><span style="font-family: times, serif; ">See<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/07/mourning-and-debate-after-climate-labs-death/">http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/07/mourning-and-debate-after-climate-labs-death/</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for more details.</span><br style="font-family: times, serif; "><br style="font-family: times, serif; "><span style="font-family: times, serif; ">I, for one, will not have anything to do with this survey, as it is the height of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font><font size="3" style="font-family: times, serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">hypocrisy</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-family: times, serif; ">for NCAR to posture as being committed to social issues!</span><br style="font-family: times, serif; "><br style="font-family: times, serif; "><span style="font-family: times, serif; ">BEN</span><br style="font-family: times, serif; "><br style="font-family: times, serif; "><span style="font-family: times, serif; ">Dr. Ben Wisner</span></font><br><br><br><blockquote style="border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 0px; ">-----Original Message-----<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>From: Marla Petal<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><mpetal@imagins.com><br>Sent: Feb 18, 2009 6:15 PM<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:radix@ecie.org">radix@ecie.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Subject: [Radix] Survey reminder: 2009 UCAR Community Survey<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br><zzzhtml><zzzbody>I find it quite offensive that the UCAR Survey manages to forget that they ever had a<div>Center for Capacity Building or Societal-Environmental Research and Education Laboratory (SERE)!</div><div><br></div><div>Let's ALL reply to this survey and remind them, and not let them re-write history!</div><div><br></div><div>Marla</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span">Begin forwarded message:</span></blockquote><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font color="#000000" size="4" face="Helvetica" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></font><font size="4" face="Helvetica" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; ">"Dr. Richard A. Anthes" <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:president@ucar.edu">president@ucar.edu</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font color="#000000" size="4" face="Helvetica" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>Date:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></font><font size="4" face="Helvetica" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; ">February 18, 2009 8:05:09 PM GMT+01:00</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font color="#000000" size="4" face="Helvetica" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></font><font size="4" face="Helvetica" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; "><<a target="_blank" href="mailto:mpetal@imagins.com">mpetal@imagins.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font color="#000000" size="4" face="Helvetica" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>Subject:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></font><font size="4" face="Helvetica" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; "><b>Survey reminder: 2009 UCAR Community Survey</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div></div><p>Dear colleague: This is a reminder to ask you to complete the UCAR community survey.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>Please go to the following web address to respond to the survey:<br><a target="_blank" href="https://survey.ucar.edu/opinio/s?s=4464&i=%5BID%5D&k=%5BKEY%5D&ro=%5BREOPEN%5D" mce_href="https://survey.ucar.edu/opinio/s?s=4464&i=32677&k=U05H&ro=">https://survey.ucar.edu/opinio/s?s=4464&i=32677&k=U05H&ro=</a></p><p><b>NOTE: If the above URL does not seem to work correctly, or you receive an error message, please copy the URL and paste it into your browser.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b><br><br>Thanks very much!</p></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; 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