date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:53:36 -0500 from: "Michael E. Mann" subject: Fwd: the campaign against you to: rbradley@geo.umass.edu, mhughes@ltrr.arizona.edu, Phil Jones , Keith Briffa , tim Osborn , tom crowley , Jonathan Overpeck , Annie_Petsonk@environmentaldefense.org FYI Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 16:08:36 +0100 From: Stefan Rahmstorf User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Mike Mann Subject: the campaign against you Dear Mike, it almost looks like there has been an orchestrated campaign of op-eds coming out world-wide on the M&M paper within days, in New Zealand, Oz, and so on, all with a similar structure and content and written by local climate skeptic academics, and there are at least rumours that this may have been organised by the PR firm Burson-Marsteller who specialises in covert anti-environmental campaigns for industry clients. This will be very difficult to prove, of course. Some inside source suggests there is more of this to come. A similar campaign was focussed on Ben Santer some years ago. I think it is worth keeping this possibility in mind, even if one can do very little about it. I hope some good investigative journalists will be on to this topic. Stefan -- Stefan Rahmstorf Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) For contact details, reprints, movies & general infos see: [1]http://www.pik-potsdam.de/~stefan ______________________________________________________________ Professor Michael E. Mann Department of Environmental Sciences, Clark Hall University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22903 _______________________________________________________________________ e-mail: mann@virginia.edu Phone: (434) 924-7770 FAX: (434) 982-2137 [2]http://www.evsc.virginia.edu/faculty/people/mann.shtml