cc: jto@u.arizona.edu, eystein.jansen@geo.uib.no, Fortunat Joos <joos@climate.unibe.ch>, Tim Osborn <t.osborn@uea.ac.uk>, drind@giss.nasa.gov
date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:42:47 +0100
from: Stefan Rahmstorf <rahmstorf@ozean-klima.de>
subject: Re: latest draft of 2000-year section text
to: Keith Briffa <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>

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Hi Keith and others,

attached is the draft Keith sent on 21 Feb of the 2000-year section, 
with comments and edits (grey) from me.

I note that Von Storch et al. 2004 is cited without it being mentioned 
that they did not implement the Mann et al. method correctly - by 
detrending before calibration, the performance of the method was greatly 
degraded in their model. I guess you left this out because the comment 
to Science showing this is still in press? Will it be added once this 
has been published? I think it is a major point, as it was such a 
high-profile paper - Von Storch's contention that the "hockey stick" is 
"nonsense" (cited in the US Senate) is based on a mistake.

Cheers, Stefan

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