date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:49:32 +0100 from: Tim Osborn subject: recent exchange in Science, Wahl et al, Storch et al to: 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@metoffice.gov.uk,storch@gkss.de, Keith Briffa ,fidelgr@fis.ucm.es 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