date: Wed May 28 14:54:55 2008 from: Phil Jones subject: Re: Press release plus Nature to: David Thompson Dave, Just spoken to Alister Doyle from Reuters. He asked the same question. He also asked the question about billions of investment riding on the global T curve. The second question is typical bullshit. The investment will happen anyway. The hope is that the investors consider climate change. The answer to the first q is the quote I have in the press release. The measuring system wasn't designed for continuity. We are only adjusting where we know the reason. I'll email him. Cheers Phil At 14:20 28/05/2008, David Thompson wrote: Thanks Phil. I've pointed everyone to the press release, and have chatted with only one person, a guy from the BBC. He seemed very informed and clever. The only point I didn't like was that he kept trying to get me to say what I think the skeptics will think - I kept telling him I don't know, but he obviously wanted more. Anyway, I hope you don't mind that I suggested he could chat with you if needed. His name and email are: Richard Black, [1]richard.black@bbc.co.uk -Dave On May 28, 2008, at 2:16 PM, Phil Jones wrote: Dave, I'm just back from taking our Chinese visitors to the N. Norfolk coast. Can you get them to email "Bartman Cat Ms \(MAC\)" <[2]C.Bartman@uea.ac.uk> The press release won't be up till 6pm today Cheers Phil At 13:27 28/05/2008, David Thompson wrote: All, I've been getting a lot of emails from journalists, and I'd like to point them to either the UEA or Met Office press releases. Is there a way I can do this? Thanks, Dave On May 27, 2008, at 11:36 AM, Gromett, Barry wrote: All I have made no further changes to the attached release and from a Met Office PR point of view Im perfectly happy with the content. Could you please let me know today if you have any significant objection to this being issued tomorrow (Wednesday 28 May). I know this is a popular week for holiday in the UK but if you are available to reply please do. If you have any specific notes to editors you would like included, please copy me relevant text, many thanks. Regards Barry Gromett ___________________________________________________________________________________ From: Phil Jones [[3]mailto:p.jones@uea.ac.uk] Sent: 23 May 2008 12:12 To: Britton, Dave; David Thompson; Kennedy, John Cc: Mike Wallace; Smith, Fiona Subject: RE: Press release plus Nature Dave(s), Accepted the changes. Have added the back the 'word' also, as this aspect is a relatively minor point as far as the paper is concerned. I'm happy with this now. Hope all are happy with their quotes. I think these address a lot of the issues, and will provide good reporters the chance to follow up with us. We should be able to close this out fairly soon. Cheers Phil At 11:32 23/05/2008, Britton, Dave wrote: All, I have made some further changes. Please take a look at reply with further comments. Nature will be issuing there embargoed release either today or yesterday. Cheers Dave Dave Britton Chief Press Officer Met Office FitzRoy Road Exeter Devon EX1 3PB United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)1392 884629 Mobile: +44 (0)7753 880687 Fax: +44 (0)1392 885681 E-mail:[4] dave.britton@metoffice.gov.uk [5]http://www.metoffice.gov.uk Met Office climate change predictions can now be viewed on Google Earth [6]http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/hadleycentre/google/ ___________________________________________________________________________________ From: David Thompson [ [7]mailto:davet@atmos.colostate.edu] Sent: 23 May 2008 10:43 To: Kennedy, John; Britton, Dave Cc: Phil Jones; Mike Wallace Subject: Re: Press release plus Nature All, Sorry I didn't get back to you yesterday; I'm on travel and didn't have email access. Here are my edits on the press release. I took John's most recent version, and changed my quote to clarify John's role in identifying the cause of the drop. Please look at the quotes and let me know if they are OK. CSU is bugging me for some text, so I'm going to forward this version to them. I chatted with Quirin the other day, but in doing so realized reporters - even those from Nature - are going to feel a lot of pressure to sensationalize the result. Quirin assured me he wouldn't, but we'll see. I'm also going to echo the press release in any interviews. I'll let you know if I hear anything from Nature. -Dave 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 [8]p.jones@uea.ac.uk NR4 7TJ UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- David W. J. 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