cc: "Thorne, Peter" <peter.thorne@metoffice.gov.uk>, Peter.Thorne@noaa.gov, Leopold Haimberger <leopold.haimberger@univie.ac.at>, Karl Taylor <taylor13@llnl.gov>, Tom Wigley <wigley@cgd.ucar.edu>, John Lanzante <John.Lanzante@noaa.gov>, ssolomon@frii.com, Melissa Free <Melissa.Free@noaa.gov>, peter gleckler <gleckler1@llnl.gov>, "'Philip D. Jones'" <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>, Thomas R Karl <Thomas.R.Karl@noaa.gov>, Steve Klein <klein21@mail.llnl.gov>, carl mears <mears@remss.com>, Doug Nychka <nychka@ucar.edu>, Gavin Schmidt <gschmidt@giss.nasa.gov>, Steven Sherwood <Steven.Sherwood@yale.edu>, Frank Wentz <frank.wentz@remss.com>, Anne Stark <stark8@llnl.gov>, "David C. Bader" <bader2@llnl.gov>, "Bamzai, Anjuli" <Anjuli.Bamzai@science.doe.gov>
date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:37:10 -0700
from: Ben Santer <santer1@llnl.gov>
subject: Final version of press release
to: santer1@llnl.gov

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Dear folks,

Here is the (hopefully final!) version of the press release for our IJoC 
paper. It just keeps on mutating...

There are some small but important changes relative to the version I 
sent out yesterday evening. The most important change is that we've now 
removed explicit reference to the UR/UAH group. Some of you were 
concerned that this explicit reference was unnecessary and provocative. 
With some careful rewording, Anne found a nice way of finessing this issue.

There are also some changes on the second page, in the paragraph 
beginning "The second reason for the reconciliation..." These changes 
were suggested by Peter Thorne. The intent here was to convey the 
message that the new surface and upper-air datasets we've used have 
helped us to better understand and quantify the "structural 
uncertainties" in the observations.

Please shout loud, quickly, and often if there's something in the 
revised press release that you cannot live with. If not, I suggest that 
we should go with this version.

Still no word from IJoC on the precise date of online publication. Looks 
like it will be either tomorrow or early next week. Glenn MacGregor is 
checking on this. Glenn informed me today that the print version of our 
paper will appear in the November issue of IJoC, together with the 
Douglass et al. IJoC paper! I think that Glenn held back the print 
publication of Douglass et al. (remember that their paper was published 
online 10 months ago, in December 2007!) so that our paper and theirs 
would appear in the same issue of the IJoC. I suspect that Douglass et 
al. are not going to be very happy about IJoC's decision. So be prepared 
for possible unpleasantness...

Now back to work on the fact sheet.

With best regards, and many thanks again for your helpful input on the 
press release,

Ben
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