cc: Anne Stark , "David C. Bader" , "Bamzai, Anjuli" date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:54:46 -0700 from: Ben Santer subject: First draft of press release to: "Thorne, Peter" , Peter.Thorne@noaa.gov, Leopold Haimberger , Karl Taylor , Tom Wigley , John Lanzante , ssolomon@frii.com, Melissa Free , peter gleckler , "'Philip D. Jones'" , Thomas R Karl , Steve Klein , carl mears , Doug Nychka , Gavin Schmidt , Steven Sherwood , Frank Wentz Dear folks, Many thanks for your comments on the "fact sheet", which I'll try to modify tomorrow. LLNL intends to issue a press release when our paper is published later in the week. Here is a second draft of the press release. This is my modified version of the first draft, which was written by Anne Stark in our Public Affairs Office. As you can see, the press release focuses on the contributions of LLNL scientists to the study. I'd be grateful for any suggestions as to how we might expand the focus. One possibility is that other institutions might want to issue their own releases, which would emphasize how this emerging reconciliation of modeled and observed tropical temperature changes was facilitated by the development of new observational estimates of surface and tropospheric temperature change. In case your home institution wants to issue its own press release, it would be good to coordinate this with Anne, whom I'm copying on this email. With best regards, Ben ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Benjamin D. Santer Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory P.O. Box 808, Mail Stop L-103 Livermore, CA 94550, U.S.A. Tel: (925) 422-3840 FAX: (925) 422-7675 email: santer1@llnl.gov ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment Converted: "c:\eudora\attach\Santer_IJC_Sept_2008_v3.doc"