cc: Eduardo Zorita , gerd.buerger@mail.met.fu-berlin.de, Julie.Jones@gkss.de, cubasch@zedat.fu-berlin.de, simon.tett@metoffice.gov.uk, Philip Brohan , Hans von Storch , Keith Briffa , fidelgr@fis.ucm.es date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 12:03:32 +0100 from: simon.tett@metoffice.gov.uk subject: Re: recent exchange in Science, Wahl et al, Storch et al to: Tim Osborn Hi Tim, Eduardo pointed me at it as well. I did find it rather an attack. Even contemplated adding a comment but decided I did not have enough time to do it as I was writing a briefing note for Defra on the comments. I've attached it! Simon On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 11:49, Tim Osborn wrote: > Thanks for the reprints of the comment/reply, Eduardo, which are > indeed interesting. > > Did you already see the article just posted at realclimate.org which > discusses these papers (and also mentions Burger and Cubasch, 2005): > > http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/04/a-correction-with-repercussions/ > > Seems rather biased and the tone is certainly not constructive. > > I really hope that the discussion of bias in reconstructions will > proceed in a much more constructive way at the PAGES/CLIVAR meeting > in Wengen in June, which will be attended by me, Keith, Eduardo and > some of the authors of this realclimate.org article. We will do our > best to ensure that it is constructive and good-spirited! > > Cheers > > Tim > > Dr Timothy J Osborn > Climatic Research Unit > School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia > Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK > > e-mail: t.osborn@uea.ac.uk > phone: +44 1603 592089 > fax: +44 1603 507784 > web: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~timo/ > sunclock: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~timo/sunclock.htm -- Dr Simon Tett Managing Scientist, Data development and applications. Met Office Hadley Centre (Reading Unit) Meteorology Building, University of Reading Reading RG6 6BB Tel: +44 (0)118 378 5614 Fax +44 (0)118 378 5615 Mobile: +44-(0)77 538 80696 I work in Exeter about 2 days/week. E-mail: simon.tett@metoffice.gov.uk http://www.metoffice.gov.uk Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=wahl_brief.txt Content-Type: text/plain; name=wahl_brief.txt; charset= Attachment Converted: "c:\eudora\attach\wahl_brief.txt"