Letters to the Editor
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Corrections
Two corrections: the American Quaternary (not Quarternary) Association does not publish Eos, which is the house organ of the American Geophysical Union. AMQUA's letter ran in last week's issue, which is behind the firewall but has the same wording as the copy cited here.
This move by the AAPG is a great miscalculation, but I'm not surprised. The AAPG statement on climate change is not dated, but it refers to no literature later than 1999 and should have been reassessed long ago. (In fact its whole set of policy statements at http://dpa.aapg.org/gac/index.cfm is a Web Page That Sucks.) AAPG is a relatively insular group and might not be as sensitive to offending the community of scientists as the broader-based societies. But offend it did. The author of Jurassic Park surely deserves the award, but not the author of State of Fear. Since it can't back down from that embarrassment, the best thing AAPG could do right now is revisit its statement on climate change.