date: Wed Sep 27 09:25:28 2006
from: Keith Briffa <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>
subject: Re: The Holocene-manuscript
to: g.swindles@Queens-Belfast.AC.UK

   Graeme
   thanks for this - I follow your points - which are very well expressed in the manuscript ,
   but I just wanted to know whether you really believed that this "event" was solar induced .
   Personally , I am not convinced either way , but I know that your paper adds to the bank of
   well-dated records that will eventually help settle this . I wonder if you might like to
   actually address  the possibility of a direct volcanic effect in your text , which I feel
   would add to the "citability" of the paper as the debate grows (which it will). If not, I
   am happy to publish just as is . If you wished to add a section , including the points you
   both make here about the possibility of volcanic forcing , them I would be happy to publish
   as well. Up to you and over to you.
   cheers
   Keith
   At 19:29 26/09/2006, you wrote:

     Hi Keith,
     See comments attached.
     Many thanks,
     Graeme
     On Sep 26 2006, Keith Briffa wrote:

     Graeme
     First , I am going to recommend immediate publication - perhaps not under the tittle of
     "rapid communication" , but just as soon as it can be published.
     Second, could you consider why you attribute the cool/wet evidence to solar forcing at
     all ? Is this because you believe you show local evidence that is delayed , or are you
     just persisting with a assumed solar effect and trying not to be too dramatic by
     suggesting the effect is not solar - but perhaps a response to volcanic forcing. Either
     way , the point is ambiguous and I would like your opinion before proceeding. Thanks
     Keith
     At 20:55 04/09/2006, you wrote:
     >Dear Keith,
     >
     >I have posted you three copies of the manuscript for peer review >(The Holocene)
     entitled 'A delayed climatic response to solar >forcing at 2800 cal. BP: Multi-proxy
     evidence from three Irish >peatland (Swindles, Plunkett & Roe).
     >
     >Many thanks,
     >
     >Graeme
     >
     >----
     >Graeme Swindles
     >School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology
     >Queen's University Belfast
     >Northern Ireland
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   University of East Anglia
   Norwich, NR4 7TJ, U.K.

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