Reid, who also thinks video technology should be used to help officials make decisions, backed asuggestion by a Scottish National Party MP that referees should declare which teams they support.
Of course, some have the background which is a different issue, but even in that case this should be asuggestion from the product owner to makea change, and the engineer can evaluate and remain accountable for their part of the solution.
Before they can make much progress in confirming that suggestion, climatologists need a stream of reliable data on worldwide temperature trends, both at the surface and in the atmosphere.
"It is important that both sides make efforts through political dialogue so that a summit meeting between Japanese and Chinese leaders can take place - this is the suggestion that I made, " he said.