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...story on El Nino incorrectly stated that Michael Glantz was formerly with the National Center for Atmospheric Research [SCIENCE, Feb. 16]. Glantz is still with NCAR as a senior scientist...
Like global warming, El Nino--or rather, the climate cycle that produces El Nino--does not generate weather per se: rather it alters the context in which weather takes place. The distinction here is a critical one. "Climate," as social scientist Michael Glantz, formerly of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, likes to say, "is what you expect. Weather is what...
...phenomenon held in Boulder, Colo., in July [SCIENCE, Aug. 18]. We'd like to make it clear that this conference was sponsored by the National Center for Atmospheric Research's Advanced Study Program. For those interested in the meeting's outcome, see the Web page at www.dir.ucar.edu/esig/enso MICHAEL GLANTZ, Colloquium Organizer National Center for Atmospheric Research Boulder, Colo...
...Nino is back. What is going on? scientists wonder. Are frequent El Ninos a signal of global warming caused by human tampering with the atmosphere? Or do they arise from random fluctuations in the natural cycle? There are as yet no good answers to these questions. Observes Michael Glantz of the National Center for Atmospheric Research: "The discrepancy between what we think we know about El Nino and what there is to know may still be quite large...
Hardy souls who crave still more detail on the current tobacco wars may want to dip into The Cigarette Papers (University of California Press; 539 pages; $29.95), a new study of the Brown & Williamson documents that were leaked to antismoking activist Stanton Glantz. Next month will also see the publication of Smokescreen: The Truth Behind the Tobacco Industry Cover-Up (Addison-Wesley; 288 pages; $22) by New York Times reporter Philip J. Hilts...