From: Phil Jones <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>
To: "Michael E. Mann" <mann@virginia.edu>
Subject: Empire Strikes Back - return of proper science !
Date: Fri May 20 13:45:26 2005

      Mike,

          Just reviewed Caspar's paper with Wahl for Climatic Change. Looks pretty good.
    Almost reproduced your series and shows where MM have gone wrong. Should keep
    them quiet for a while. Also they release all the data and the R software. Presume
    you know all about this. Should make Keith's life in Ch 6 easy !
        Also, confidentially for a few weeks,  Christy and Spencer have admitted
    at the Chicago CCSP meeting that their 2LT record is wrong !! They used the wrong
    sign for the diurnal correction !  Series now warms - not quite as much as the surface
    but within error bands. Between you and me, we'll be going with RSS in Ch 3
    and there will be no discrepancy with the surface and the models. Should make Ch 3
    a doddle now !   Keep quiet about this until Bern at least. Can tell you more then.
    RSS (Carl Mears and Frank Wentz) found the mistake !
       The skeptic pillars are tumbling !
    Cheers
    Phil

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