date: Tue Apr 5 13:57:16 2005 from: Phil Jones subject: Re: pretty good piece in today's "Washington Times" to: "Michael E. Mann" Mike, Yes I'll be in Bern in June. I won't get there till the Monday pm though. Keith is going with me tomorrow so I'll let him know you're pleased with Ch 6. Ch 3 needs a lot of work still, but we have broken the back of it. Lots to do on the details and getting better and clearer figures. I am expecting many more comments on the FOD (first-order draft) after we submit that in the late summer. We still have 40 sets of comments from our CAs and 5-6 formal friendly reviews. I hope once all these are in and then the draft reduced in size with better figures and more concise text we'll be mostly there. Responding to the zillions of comments will then be much easier with that draft than the current one. Cheers Phil At 13:35 05/04/2005, you wrote: Hi Phil, Thanks for touching base. Things are getting busy, w/ the move to Penn State just around the corner now. I'm also trying to finalize my reviewer comments on the IPCC chapter 6. Keith and company did a great job, and my comments are mostly minor and (hopefully) constructive. Your chapter looked very good by the way! Be prepared for an onslaught of comments from the contrarians! They've probably hired a staff of hundreds to type away--the online comment form makes this very easy. The Sci. Am piece was good too. I agree w/ you about Bill R.'s stuff--I think Bill is a good scientist, and he's a personal friend too. But I remain a bit skeptical. At least he's putting this out in a constructive fashion however... Regarding Science comment--yeah, we wanted to revise significantly to incorporate results from our J. Climate letter. W/out those results, the comment was much weaker. Science told us that this would be too significant a change, but said that we could opt instead for them to do an "editor's choice" piece on our J. Climate paper. Sounded like a good deal to me. Please don't tell the GKSS folks about any of this. I'd prefer the element of surprise. Still awaiting word from Nature on the status of the Moberg comment. Will keep you posted. talk to you later, Mike p.s. see you in Bern in June, right?? At 07:07 AM 4/5/2005, Phil Jones wrote: Mike, This was a good one as stories go. Someone finally got to the other reconstructions. Just also seen the March Scientific American. Saw your story earlier, but hadn't seen Ruddiman's bit. Not sure I believe it. Tim got an email from Eduardo today. He says you've withdrawn your comment to Science on von Storch et al. Is this true? Do you reckon the paper with Caspar and others in J. Climate is a better way of responding? By the way you've pissed off GKSS by withdrawing. Is the Nature comment on Moberg et al. still awaiting a response? Off from tomorrow from April 6-15. Should be in email contact - at least from April 10. Cheers Phil At 17:27 04/04/2005, you wrote: [1]http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050401-080237-5213r.htm ______________________________________________________________ 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 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________________________ 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 [3]http://www.evsc.virginia.edu/faculty/people/mann.shtml 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------