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<p>Dear Jeff,</p>
<p> I appreciate your kind and encouraging words to Russian
colleagues, and I too appreciate their warm friendship and the
ways in which they have contributed to our collective knowledge.
But I do not believe members of any profession can exempt
themselves from the responsibility of standing up to leaders who
unleash massive suffering on a people who present no threat them.
I realize that the perils I faced as a young man protesting
against the US government during the Vietnam war could not be
considered equivalent to what brave Russians are facing today when
they take to the streets to express their outrage to the what is
taking place in Ukraine, but I can only hope that everyone
realizes that they do have power, and through their sacrifices can
help the turn the tide on what is happening.</p>
<p> Sincerely,</p>
<p>SiriJodha Singh Khalsa<br>
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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">I write in the sad
occasion of the current events and with no knowledge of where
all this is headed. I have written to a few of you, but I am
sure I missed more than I could send messages. I just want to
take the moment, while East-West communications remain open,
to thank you for your work on glacier and mountain processes
and climate-change impacts on Earth surface system processes,
and planetary science. Whether Ukrainian or Russian or both,
you have my best wishes for safety and-- we all need a big
dose of it-- sanity. At various times in the past, some of you
recently, it has been a pleasure working with you. Even as
some of us find ourselves on different sides of a divide (or
maybe you have family on the other side), I want you to know
that as individuals and as a global scientific community we
can still work toward a common purpose of helping to
understand a climatically troubled planet. We may be unable to
affect other troubling matters around us, but we can still
work for a healthier planet or at least a planet that
maintains much of its natural beauty, ecological riches, and
humanly supportable environmental conditions. Whether it is
working together, or working separately, we work to the same
goal. I will just leave it at that, and say in either a
religious sense or just a manner of speaking (whichever way
makes sense to you), May God Help Us All. I wish you and your
friends and colleagues on both sides of the looming divide to
have happiness and well being. It's hard, I know. And with
some luck, we may come out of this sooner that with the
previous Cold War. I have my views, and my anger at what is
happening, and my shock that it could be happening in this day
and age; but what I also have is friendship and recognition of
the value of what you have contributed scientifically, and to
the safety of mountain villages and mountain infrastructure,
and the security of our global climatic/environmental system.
It is for all of of collective benefit. This must continue.
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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">Sincerely, in sorrow, but
also gratitude specifically for your contributions to
humanity, and in hopes for your and your families' safety and
well being, and in hopes that our leaders could see the bigger
picture. If a new Iron Curtain comes down, please remember my
words, and my sincerity, and that we are all in this together,
on this one little planet together. TOGETHER. </div>
<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">Jeffrey Kargel</span><br>
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Siri-Jodha Singh KHALSA, Ph.D., retired
Senior Scientist, National Snow and Ice Data Center
University of Colorado
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Traditional Territories of the Arapaho, Cheyenne and Ute Nations
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