date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:06:29 +0000
from: Keith Briffa <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>
subject: Fwd: Gooble, gooble
to: t.m.melvin@uea.ac.uk,Tim Osborn <t.osborn@uea.ac.uk>,s.busby@uea.ac.uk

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>Hello Prof Briffa,
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>So nice to here from you! I see you are now Deputy Director. Soon the House
>of Lords! Yes, I will review the paper for
>you. I am a nice guy!
>
>Regarding the NZ paper, I assume you are referring to the one submitted by
>Pavla, with me as a co-author, on her
>pink pine South Island work:
>
>"The last 520 years of temperature fluctuations reconstructed from New
>Zealand tree rings" by Pavla Fenwick,
>Edward R. Cook and Jonathan G. Palmer
>
>I also asked her at one point why she never submitted a revised paper and
>she ducked her head as if I was going to
>hit her. A reflex due growing up touch in old communist Czechoslovakia, I
>suppose. She admitted that she was too
>nervous about the RCS work she did. It is clear now from Tom's work that
>her RCS chronology was biased by the
>inclusion of younger trees in the sample, so the positive trend in
>temperatures reconstructed from the RCS
>chronology, while probably there in reality to some extent, is probably too
>large. Some such thing like that anyway. I
>will be seeing her in a couple of weeks in NZ and will be happy to make her
>duck her head again in reflexive
>response to your query. The work she did was really quite good overall and
>pink pine has a lovely temperature
>signal. She even made some NZ gals cry when they were out in the
>impenetrable high forest in frigid June coring
>trees for her thesis. She told the "little girls" (roughly her words) to go
>back to the car while she cored trees in near
>freezing conditions. As I suggested above, she grew up touch in old
>communist Czechoslovakia. She can also drink
>most mortals under the table.
>
>Now on to Thanksgiving. Yes, of course, the three gentlemen and one scouser
>are welcome to come over at that
>time. The four of you are even welcome to join us for a fine Thanksgiving
>dinner to honor the escape of the Pilgrims
>from barbarous British rule. Indeed, your presence at the table would be
>expected if not required. I would assume
>that you will want to work on Tom's attempt to do the impossible. When Tom
>and Ken Peters meet, it will be quite a
>spectacle. Two of the smartest and most ill-equipped for society people on
>Mother Earth.
>
>By the way, given the considerable generosity of my current state of mind,
>I would ask you for an important favor.
>Tom said that he and you have a paper on signal-free standardization ready
>to go out the door. Please send me a
>copy. I am extremely anxious to put it in ARSTAN and have asked Tom to send
>me the code for doing it as well.
>Please see if you can facilitate this process.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Ed
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>Dr. Edward R. Cook
>Doherty Senior Scholar and
>Director, Tree-Ring Laboratory
>Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
>Palisades, New York 10964  USA
>Email:  drdendro@ldeo.columbia.edu
>Phone:  845-365-8618
>Fax:    845-365-8152
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