Here's another small success story, if there is follow-through. Sorry I forgot to send her the URL for the USMA web site. Bruce ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 17:41:18 -0500 From: Nancy Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:Please add SI units to http://www.climatehotmap.org/ Dear Bruce, thanks for your comment. You are absolutely right; we should include SI-metric units. We are currently revising and expanding the map points, and expect these additions to go up some time in late March. I will be talking with our scientist taking the lead on this project to see what we can do about this issue. Thanks again for bringing it to our attention. I expect the expanded map will be even more impressive/ frightening. Regards, Nancy Cole ____________________Reply Separator____________________ Subject: Please add SI units to http://www.climatehotmap.org/ Author: Bruce Raup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2/16/01 11:17 AM Dear UCS: I enjoyed viewing your web site at http://www.climatehotmap.org/. It is great to see all these signs of global change from disparate fields collected in one place. It paints quite an alarming picture. I was disappointed, however, to see that all numbers were reported in terms of units of measure that are now basically used only in the US. Your web site is accessible internationally, but by not including SI units, you make much of its content unintelligible to most of the world's population. (Some Japanese friends told me recently that they had no concept of what a "foot" or "mile" was. We shouldn't expect them to.) Further, many of your viewers are at least conversant in science. The scientific community is international, and uses SI units predominantly. Please add SI units to your web site. When presenting information on the World Wide Web, it's best to use World Wide Units. See http://www.metricmethods.com/ or http://commerce.aip.org/metric.htm for detailed information on SI-metric units. Thanks, Bruce -- Bruce Raup National Snow and Ice Data Center Phone: 303-492-8814 University of Colorado, 449 UCB Fax: 303-492-2468 Boulder, CO 80309-0449 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
