In a recent article titled Back to the Future (Eos, 16 March, p. 107) L. C. Witton lays out the goals of IGBP-PAGES for the next few years, noting that, PAGES is aiming to become a truly bottom-up organization that is driven by the insights of individual scientists.... In fact, PAGES has always been a truly bottom-up organization, and this statement unfortunately fosters the view that it has been otherwise. Those who promote such a view choose to overlook the countless workshops that PAGES has organized, largely at the suggestion of those at the bottom, and the numerous publications that have resulted from these meetings.