date: Mon Dec 4 10:35:06 2006 from: Keith Briffa subject: Re: (pas de sujet) to: Valerie.Masson@cea.fr Valerie I know you will think me unreasonable but I can not take on this task. True I know enough to realise that I would have to re-read all the correspondence and go back to quite a few papers. In recent months my other commitments have fallen further and further behind , and I have two important promises (concerning papers to be written) that I must keep They have to take precedence because after Christmas all my teaching overwhelms me for 4 months . So - I recommend you ask Eugen Wahl - who I believe is genuinely completely objective and independent . Please ask him - understand and forgive me !! with really best wishes Keith At 16:26 01/12/2006, you wrote: Dear Keith, I am an editor of Climate of the Past and in charge of a paper submitted by Bürger in a revised form. As you may know, an initial version of this work was the center of a strong discussion in a first round of reviews. I need very solid reviewers to handle this paper and I think that you are one of the most qualified persons to do this work. I sincerely hope that you will give a positive answer to the review request, give a first look to the paper and assess if it can be published first online, and then proceed to a more solid review. Thank you very much for your help with this paper, which deserves a fair review process, and solid reviewers, Sincerely, Valérie. -- Professor Keith Briffa, Climatic Research Unit University of East Anglia Norwich, NR4 7TJ, U.K. Phone: +44-1603-593909 Fax: +44-1603-507784 [1]http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/people/briffa/