date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:18:40 +0000 from: Gabi Hegerl subject: Re: Press coverage of polar detection paper to: Phil Jones Hi Phil, I managed to back myself into a debate after all and am agonizing over it. Pat Michaels wants to go after the historical context ie a ice free arctic not being unusual. should I just fall ill? do you know about ice free arctic in paleoclimatic context? do we have arctic proxies? Gabi Phil Jones wrote: > >> Nathan et al, > Although still embargoed till 6pm UK time on Thursday, Alexey > and I > have started doing interviews about the paper. Alexey should be talking > to someone fairly soon. I talked to Nature earlier today, and we've both > just talked to BBC R4 (for 6pm on Thursday) and I spoke to Sky News. > I'm off to a meeting tomorrow, so Alexey will do any more that come in > from now on. The UEA press office has been surprised by the take up > of the story - probably people are just fed up of financial news. > > Cheers > Phil > > > > > Prof. Phil Jones > Climatic Research Unit Telephone +44 (0) 1603 592090 > School of Environmental Sciences Fax +44 (0) 1603 507784 > University of East Anglia > Norwich Email p.jones@uea.ac.uk > NR4 7TJ > UK > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- Dr Gabriele Hegerl School of GeoSciences The University of Edinburgh Grant Institute, The King's Buildings West Mains Road EDINBURGH EH9 3JW Phone: +44 (0) 131 6519092, FAX: +44 (0) 131 668 3184 Email: Gabi.Hegerl@ed.ac.uk The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.