date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:03:24 -0500
from: "Michael E. Mann" <mann@virginia.edu>
subject: Fwd: Your concerns with 2004GL021750 McIntyre
to: rbradley@geo.umass.edu, mhughes@ltrr.arizona.edu, t.osborn@uea.ac.uk, wigley@ucar.edu, phil Jones <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>, keith Briffa <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>

   Dear All,
   Just a heads up.  Apparently, the contrarians now have an "in" with GRL. This guy Saiers
   has a prior connection w/ the University of Virginia Dept. of Environmental Sciences that
   causes me some unease.
   I think we now know how the various Douglass et al papers w/ Michaels and Singer, the Soon
   et al paper, and now this one have gotten published in GRL,
   Mike

     Subject: Your concerns with 2004GL021750 McIntyre
     Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:42:12 -0600
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     From: "Mackwell, Stephen" <mackwell@lpi.usra.edu>
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     Dear Prof. Mann
     In your recent email to Chris Reason, you laid out your concerns that I presume were the
     reason for your phone call to me last week. I have reviewed the manuscript by McIntyre,
     as well as the reviews. The editor in this case was Prof. James Saiers. He did note
     initially that the manuscript did challenge published work, and so felt the need for an
     extensive and thorough review. For that reason, he requested reviews from 3 knowledgable
     scientists. All three reviews recommended publication.
     While I do agree that this manuscript does challenge (somewhat aggresively) some of your
     past work, I do not feel that it takes a particularly harsh tone. On the other hand, I
     can understand your reaction. As this manuscript was not written as a Comment, but
     rather as a full-up scientific manuscript, you would not in general be asked to look it
     over. And I am satisfied by the credentials of the reviewers. Thus, I do not feel that
     we have sufficient reason to interfere in the timely publication of this work.
     However, you are perfectly in your rights to write a Comment, in which you challenge the
     authors' arguments and assertions. Should you elect to do this, your Comment would be
     provided to them and they would be offered the chance to write a Reply. Both Comment and
     Reply would then be reviewed and published together (if they survived the review
     process). Comments are limited to the equivalent of 2 journal pages.
     Regards
     Steve Mackwell
     Editor in Chief, GRL


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