date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 10:12:01 -0500
from: "Michael E. Mann" <mann@virginia.edu>
subject: status
to: "Raymond s.bradley" <rbradley@geo.umass.edu>, "Malcolm Hughes" <mhughes@ltrr.arizona.edu>, Tim Osborn <t.osborn@uea.ac.uk>, "Keith Briffa" <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>, "Phil Jones" <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>

   Dear All,
   I've discussed w/ Ray, and the game plan is that we're not going get down into a
   back-and-forth w/ these folks now. We'll let others, if necessary, comment on their
   comments, but we're (i.e., Mann/Bradley/Hughes) going to focus our energy now on a formal
   response in the peer-reviewed literature.
   I've discussed the matter w/ Nature, who is considering allowing us a response (something
   that would be brief, making liberal use of supplementary information for technical details,
   and would presumably go out for peer review). If not, they might do a news story/editorial
   on this anyway.
   The alternative, then, would be  "Climatic Change"--Steve Schneider has indicated an
   interest in publishing our response (again, peer-reviewed) in the event that Nature feels
   its not appropriate (Heike expressed some reticence about publishing a reply to a paper
   from another journal)...
   mike

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                         University of Virginia
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