cc: rbradley@geo.umass.edu, jto@u.arizona.edu, keith.alverson@pages.unibe.ch, k.briffa@uea.ac.uk, pedersen@eos.ubc.ca, mhughes@ltrr.arizona.edu, whitlock@oregon.uoregon.edu date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 18:59:53 +0200 from: Frank Oldfield subject: Re: the ghost of futures past to: "Michael E. Mann" Hi Mike, Not sure if your reply implied you were taking my points seriously or not - I'm not even sure if Ray sent them on to you or you just received his reply! My reactions to the graphs on the website are that the temperature one does not address my points (but it does not aim to and I fully agree that if the projections are sufficiently reliable it hardly needs to!), that P/E is likely to be much more important than temperature per se and that the historical sea-level curve is not really acceptable - very much more high resolution work needs to be done on that before we have any real sense of past variability on decadal to century timescales. Cheers, Frank ____________________________________________ Frank Oldfield Executive Director PAGES IPO Barenplatz 2 CH-3011 Bern, Switzerland e-mail: frank.oldfield@pages.unibe.ch Phone: +41 31 312 3133; Fax: +41 31 312 3168 http://www.pages.unibe.ch/pages.html