date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:06:29 +0000 from: Keith Briffa subject: Fwd: Gooble, gooble to: t.m.melvin@uea.ac.uk,Tim Osborn ,s.busby@uea.ac.uk FYI >Reply-To: drdendro@ldeo.columbia.edu >X-Originating-IP: 24.190.22.57 >X-URL: http://mail2web.com/ >From: "drdendro@ldeo.columbia.edu" >To: k.briffa@uea.ac.uk >Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 07:35:31 -0500 >Subject: Gooble, gooble >X-UEA-Spam-Score: 1.2 >X-UEA-Spam-Level: + >X-UEA-Spam-Flag: NO > >*** Here is another attempt to send this email to you. Your email security >features appear to be working too well! > >Hello Prof Briffa, > >So nice to here from you! I see you are now Deputy Director. Soon the House >of Lords! Yes, I will review the paper for >you. I am a nice guy! > >Regarding the NZ paper, I assume you are referring to the one submitted by >Pavla, with me as a co-author, on her >pink pine South Island work: > >"The last 520 years of temperature fluctuations reconstructed from New >Zealand tree rings" by Pavla Fenwick, >Edward R. Cook and Jonathan G. Palmer > >I also asked her at one point why she never submitted a revised paper and >she ducked her head as if I was going to >hit her. A reflex due growing up touch in old communist Czechoslovakia, I >suppose. She admitted that she was too >nervous about the RCS work she did. It is clear now from Tom's work that >her RCS chronology was biased by the >inclusion of younger trees in the sample, so the positive trend in >temperatures reconstructed from the RCS >chronology, while probably there in reality to some extent, is probably too >large. Some such thing like that anyway. I >will be seeing her in a couple of weeks in NZ and will be happy to make her >duck her head again in reflexive >response to your query. The work she did was really quite good overall and >pink pine has a lovely temperature >signal. She even made some NZ gals cry when they were out in the >impenetrable high forest in frigid June coring >trees for her thesis. She told the "little girls" (roughly her words) to go >back to the car while she cored trees in near >freezing conditions. As I suggested above, she grew up touch in old >communist Czechoslovakia. She can also drink >most mortals under the table. > >Now on to Thanksgiving. Yes, of course, the three gentlemen and one scouser >are welcome to come over at that >time. The four of you are even welcome to join us for a fine Thanksgiving >dinner to honor the escape of the Pilgrims >from barbarous British rule. Indeed, your presence at the table would be >expected if not required. I would assume >that you will want to work on Tom's attempt to do the impossible. When Tom >and Ken Peters meet, it will be quite a >spectacle. Two of the smartest and most ill-equipped for society people on >Mother Earth. > >By the way, given the considerable generosity of my current state of mind, >I would ask you for an important favor. >Tom said that he and you have a paper on signal-free standardization ready >to go out the door. Please send me a >copy. I am extremely anxious to put it in ARSTAN and have asked Tom to send >me the code for doing it as well. >Please see if you can facilitate this process. > >Cheers, > >Ed >================================== >Dr. Edward R. Cook >Doherty Senior Scholar and >Director, Tree-Ring Laboratory >Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory >Palisades, New York 10964 USA >Email: drdendro@ldeo.columbia.edu >Phone: 845-365-8618 >Fax: 845-365-8152 >================================== > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >mail2web - Check your email from the web at >http://mail2web.com/ . -- Professor Keith Briffa, Climatic Research Unit University of East Anglia Norwich, NR4 7TJ, U.K. Phone: +44-1603-593909 Fax: +44-1603-507784 http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/people/briffa/