cc: Mike Wallace <wallace@atmos.washington.edu>, John Kennedy <john.kennedy@metoffice.gov.uk>
date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 13:27:02 +0100
from: David Thompson <davet@atmos.colostate.edu>
subject: Re: Decision on Nature manuscript 2008-01-00939A
to: Phil Jones <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>

   Phil,

   I know what you mean about liaising over a press release. It's occurred to me the work
   might be misused by the skeptics.

   My knee-jerk reaction was to have nothing to do with the press on this. I figured it would
   be easy to be quoted out of context, and I thought I'd let the work speak for itself. I
   also don't think the fringe skeptics are worth an ounce of my time.

   But ... maybe that's too strong of a reaction. I'm certainly open to crafting a few
   paragraphs which we all agree on. And I'm happy to entrain other folks in the release.

   I don't know if Nature are doing a news and views item. If they are, I'll suggest they
   contact, say, Dick Reynolds and maybe Susan.

   -Dave

   On Apr 9, 2008, at 12:28 PM, Phil Jones wrote:

      Dave,
         An email came last night to update my profile with Nature, so I expected this.
       Congratulations again!
       Once we have the proofs, we'll need to liaise over a press release. We need to be very
      careful what we say. When we do these with the global T figures the UEA and Met Office
      press offices work together. I reckon we should use this process again - and involve
      David Parker, Chris Folland and possibly John Mitchell in the drafting of this. The
      press release will need to briefly mention the implications of this for the long-term
     trend
      and also the changes that will be made to the SSTs (not just for 1945-60) but
      also potentially to the recent few years from the buoy dominance now.
      Do you know Dave if Nature are doing a news and views item on the paper? If they
      aren't it would be good to try and get them to do one and have Dick Reynolds do
      it. Dick could then discuss the implications of both these points.
      In both of the above, I'm trying to head off the obvious skeptic backlash who'll say
      we can't measure T properly, so why should we believe the rest of the global T data.
      I know all that you've done is kosher and we learn of problems through varied
      analyses, but the skeptics won't see it this way - and they'll try and rake up
      as much as they can.

      As for the proofs I'll be away the week before you come to Norwich (so away April
     21-25).
      Also away May 12-16. I should be in email contact these week though.
      I don't think we'd gain much with a cover picture. The paper isn't really about
     volcanoes.
      I wouldn't bother with the front cover.
      The attached may be useful when you're talking about this. This just shows that the
      US destroyed most of their WW2 logs. I got this from Scott Woodruff in Boulder.
      The name of the person who signed this is cropped. Scott did that to protect the
     guilty!
       The person is still alive - I'm told!
      Cheers
      Phil

     At 11:31 09/04/2008, David Thompson wrote:

     Yeehaw. Nature made a decision very quickly (the editor actually emailed to say the
     manuscript would be accepted within about 2 hours of my submitting the revised version).
     Two quick questions:
     1. I think we should all have a chance to review the page proofs ... we won't be able to
     make major changes, but I think it's important everyone is comfortable with every word.
     I imagine I'll receive the proofs within the next few weeks. Does anyone have any
     extended travel plans during that period?
     2. They've asked if I'd like to submit a possible cover image. I imagine a version of
     our Fig 2 (with the volcanos labeled on the figure) would be a strong candidate. But I'm
     not sure we'll gain much from being on the cover. And I don't want to give the
     impression we're grandstanding. What do you think?
     -Dave
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