cc: "Pierre Bessemoulin" <pierre.bessemoulin@meteo.fr>, "Phil Jones" <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>
date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:20:10 +0100
from: "Leslie Malone" <LMalone@wmo.int>
subject: Re: in today's news - Washington Times story relevant to IPCC
to: "Thomas C Peterson" <Thomas.C.Peterson@noaa.gov>

   I will read this with pleasure, Tom, thnx :-)



   it makes me think WMO web page could use some FAQs with responses, based on scholarly
   efforts such as this.

   Leslie
   >>> Thomas C Peterson <Thomas.C.Peterson@noaa.gov> 3/14/2008 2:11 PM >>>
   Yes.  One of the problems Phil and I continually face is how much time should we spend
   refuting nonsense versus moving our own work forward.  One effort I made on the former is
   addressing what is the 7th most common argument by global warming skeptics, namely that all
   climatologists believed in global cooling in the 1970s so the present global warming view
   represents a flip-flop.  Attached for your late night entertainment, Leslie, is our
   response to that one issue.
           Regards,
                Tom
   Leslie Malone said the following on 3/14/2008 8:58 AM:

   Thanks to you both - Phil, the new science article is great to have in the back pocket.
   Appreciated!

   I knew the Times was not the Post, but did not know who owned it - yikes!



   Regardless, these stories, whether credible or not, and however fair or biased, look much
   the same to the unwary public out there. The Internet makes sure we have it all. And our
   news subscription makes sure all WMO staff get it too :-) Oh well -



   see you in April - I look forward to it

   Cheers

   leslie
   >>> Thomas C Peterson [1]<Thomas.C.Peterson@noaa.gov> 3/14/2008 1:31 PM >>>
   Thanks, Leslie.  I'll second Phil's comment but also mention that there are two newspapers
   in Washington.  The Post which is a rigorous, solid paper.  And the much smaller Times
   which was started by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon and has a distinct slant in its news.
   [2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Times  I try not to pay too much attention to
   what it says other than to know that such comments are out there.
             Tom
   Phil Jones said the following on 3/14/2008 8:18 AM:

      Leslie,
         There are loads of these sorts of stories. I had an email last night
      from Tom Peterson, about a recent paper in JGR. He kept on using
      the word baloney. This seems the most apt term to use here also !

        Attached is a better one. It explains what IPCC is and does.
        I'll be at AOPC again April 20-25.
      Cheers
      Phil
     At 11:55 14/03/2008, Leslie Malone wrote:

     Hi, folks
     this was in today's news feeds - thought you might want a copy for posterity. I dare say
     there are hundreds like this
     Leslie

     Climate panel on the hot seat
     More than 20 years ago, climate scientists began to raise alarms over the possibility
     global temperatures were rising due to human activities, such as deforestation and the
     burning of fossil fuels.
     To better understand this potential threat, the World Meteorological Organization and
     the United Nations created the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988
     to provide a "comprehensive, objective, scientific, technical and socioeconomic
     assessment of human-caused climate change, its potential impacts and options for
     adaptation and mitigation."
     [3]http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080314/COMMENTARY/7

     [4]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    [5]p.jones@uea.ac.uk
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