date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:53:36 -0500
from: "Michael E. Mann" <mann@virginia.edu>
subject: Fwd: the campaign against you
to: rbradley@geo.umass.edu, mhughes@ltrr.arizona.edu, Phil Jones <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>, Keith Briffa <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>, tim Osborn <t.osborn@uea.ac.uk>, tom crowley <tom@ocean.tamu.edu>, Jonathan Overpeck <jto@u.arizona.edu>, Annie_Petsonk@environmentaldefense.org

   FYI

     Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 16:08:36 +0100
     From: Stefan Rahmstorf <rahmstorf@pik-potsdam.de>
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     To: Mike Mann <mann@multiproxy.evsc.virginia.edu>
     Subject: the campaign against you
     Dear Mike,
     it almost looks like there has been an orchestrated campaign of op-eds coming out
     world-wide on the M&M paper within days, in New Zealand, Oz, and so on, all with a
     similar structure and content and written by local climate skeptic academics, and there
     are at least rumours that this may have been organised by the PR firm Burson-Marsteller
     who specialises in covert anti-environmental campaigns for industry clients. This will
     be very difficult to prove, of course. Some inside source suggests there is more of this
     to come. A similar campaign was focussed on Ben Santer some years ago.
     I think it is worth keeping this possibility in mind, even if one can do very little
     about it. I hope some good investigative journalists will be on to this topic.
     Stefan
     --
     Stefan Rahmstorf
     Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
     For contact details, reprints, movies & general infos see:
     [1]http://www.pik-potsdam.de/~stefan

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