date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:41:55 -0500 from: David Easterling subject: paper to: Phil Jones Content-type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by ueamailgate02.uea.ac.uk id n09DfWar002348 Hi Phil, Michael Wehner and I have written a very short paper in response to all this garbage about the climate "cooling" since 1998 (attached). We wrote it for either Science or Nature, but Science balked at it claiming it is too specialized (what a crock) and should go to a specialty journal. We feel they are gun-shy about publishing controversial papers due to some lawsuit a contrarian filed against them. I would like to get it into Nature as a short contribution but its not clear to me how to do it since it is not a Letter and it looks like most of these kinds of papers are solicited by Nature. Do you have any connections there such as the editor in charge of climate and can help out here? Maybe its not newsworthy enough, but we sure get enough grief from lots of places due to the bloggers, etc. and I feel it is very timely. Cheers, Dave -- David R. Easterling, Ph.D Chief, Scientific Services Division NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center 151 Patton Avenue Asheville, NC 28801 V: +1 828 271 4675 F: +1 828 271 4328 David.Easterling@noaa.gov Attachment Converted: "c:\eudora\attach\decadal-cooling-Easterling-Wehner.pdf"