cc: John Kennedy , Mike Wallace date: Fri May 30 15:38:38 2008 from: Phil Jones subject: Re: paper to: David Thompson Dave, That's the spirit - get on with the next paper and forget all this wacky stuff. The skeptics won't be interested in the second paper. You should notice in a year or two that the Nature paper will have a fair few citations. The skeptics will move on to something else, in their fly by night nature. John will be involved in getting the adjustments done - not just for the 1945 problem but with the more important recent stuff. I see that CA have found my rough adjustment in The Independent. They say this is bilge, but they still haven't realized there are different types of buckets. Have a good weekend! Cheers Phil At 14:57 30/05/2008, David Thompson wrote: All, Thanks for keeping me in the loop. The blog stuff is wacky; I'm hoping it will die down pretty soon. I've never really bothered to read those things before... maybe I should have.... The writers are certainly bullying, and misleading ... I complained to Nature - I just had to. We agonized over every word and their reporter was sloppy with the facts. They have said they will do something. We'll see. The Independent story seems reasonable. My hope is that the NY Times article is level headed and helps set the record straight. I've been working on our next paper a lot in recent weeks .... it will certainly be more fun to disseminate. I think we'll be able to provide some novel observational evidence of 1) the importance of ocean/land coupling in global-mean temperature variability and 2) the key role of the Pacific. It will be nice to do a paper, with the same authors, which has a more positive overall message. Thinking forward to the next paper makes me feel less depressed about the misinformation going on... -Dave On May 30, 2008, at 11:02 AM, Phil Jones wrote: John, Thanks. I think my intuition about how much and for how long the adjustments will need to be done comes a little bit from experience and talking to David and Liz the week after the Polish meeting when they were in Holland. Cheers Phil At 09:52 30/05/2008, John Kennedy wrote: Dear all, That climateaudit thing is awful and one might hope that Roger Pielke would have had more sense than to put any faith in their 'corrections'. I've attached the talk I gave at the CLIMAR workshop which shows how far we've got with our estimated corrections. With Phil's guidance, The Independent was pretty close: under his own steam, Steve McIntyre was. John On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 09:06 +0100, Phil Jones wrote: > > Dave, John, Mike, > It does get a little worse when you look at the blog sites! > > [1]http://www.climateaudit.org/ > > > [2]http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/climate_change/001445does_the_i pccs_main.html > > You've likely met Roger Pielke Jr. They have taken the adjustments > too far, far too far! > > I did talk to the Independent and they tried to produce the effect > of likely adjustments. > > [3]http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/case-against- > climate-change-discredited-by-study-835856.html > > This is probably too much, but it's much nearer than Pielke. I > expect this to disappear earlier - or > to a negligible amount by 1955. > > We'll need to do the adjustments - spatially and seasonally, for > both the 45-60 period > and also the post 2000. The skeptics seem to have a mind block on the > latter. It may be > smaller than 0.1, but it could be important spatially and seasonally. > I reckon they forget > the recent past and say the land record must be affected and the > satellites are right, but > then they always go for UAH. They have a fixation on this dataset and > seem blind > to the RSS one. > > A lot of work is going on with Sonde adjustments, using thermal > winds etc. All > seem to indicate that RSS is likely better, but you have to remember > that this is LT > and not the surface. > > Mike has been through all this before with an Academy Report and > then there is the > CCSP report. > > I'm not sure much will be gained by telling Nature their reporter > isn't that good. The N&V > article did confuse the issue with the early 1940s a little. > Hopefully the new load of > digitized SSTs for the whole of the 1940s will help resolve things > better. > > Cheers > Phil > > > At 20:54 29/05/2008, David Thompson wrote: > > Phil, > > > > Hopefully the NY Times article is reasonable. > > > > I indulged in 10 minutes of surfing some wacky right wing blog this > > morning which is linked via the crummy Nature news piece (some guy > > called McIntyre ranting about how he'd figured this all out before > > and that our paper highlights how corrupt we all are). Anyway, it's > > a surreal site and makes me feel sorry with what you and, say, Susan > > must have to deal with on a regular basis. My instinct is to blow it > > off. But what bugs me is that the link is prominently available > > below the Nature news article. > > > > Do you think it's worth telling the editor (who I liked) that their > > news article is factually wrong and that it's subsequent blog seems > > overly vitriolic for a peer-reviewed journals main page? Or do you > > suggest I just let it go. > > > > -Dave > > > > > > On May 29, 2008, at 3:43 PM, Phil Jones wrote: > > > > > > > > Dave, > > > The Nature news item is a bit of a curate's egg - good in > > > parts, but very poor in some. > > > I guess it didn't help moving Fort Collins to Boulder and getting > > > the name wrong didn't > > > help. > > > I've just spoken to Henry Fountain at the NYT. I gave him some > > > interesting > > > historical snippets and I hope he will also call Scott Woodruff. > > > > > > Cheers > > > Phil > > > > > > > > > At 22:03 28/05/2008, David Thompson wrote: > > > > All, > > > > Well the News and Views article is very nice and clear... I like > > > > how it clarifies the non-impact on century-long trends. But the > > > > Nature reporter's news story is really crappy. I'm surprised > > > > they hired such a sensationalizing hack. I'm tempted to tell the > > > > editor he makes them look bad. > > > > -Dave > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > David W. J. 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