cc: "Keith Briffa" <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>
date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:43:20 +0000
from: Tim Osborn <t.osborn@uea.ac.uk>
subject: Re: FW: Juckes et al Submission
to: "Martin Juckes" <M.N.Juckes@rl.ac.uk>

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Hi Martin,

I was just wondering what your initial reaction to McIntyre's message 
might be, and whether you plan to ignore it, respond to it, or accept it?

Cheers

Tim

At 14:06 29/10/2006, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>[Steve McIntyre] The word "code" should have been used instead of 
>"methods". The version below amends and supercedes the email just sent to you.
>
>Dear Dr Juckes,
>
>In your recent submission to Climate of the Past, now available for 
>comment on the Internet, you make the following untrue and 
>defamatory statement:
>
><blockquote>    The code used by MM2005 [the GRL article] is not, at 
>the time of writing, available,  .
></blockquote>
>
>As you either know or should know, the code used in McIntyre and 
>McKitrick 2005 is available at the Supplementary Information to the 
>article at <a href=" 
><ftp://ftp.agu.org/apend/gl/2004GL021750>ftp://ftp.agu.org/apend/gl/2004GL021750"> 
><ftp://ftp.agu.org/apend/gl/2004GL021750>ftp://ftp.agu.org/apend/gl/2004GL021750</a>, 
>as is made clear in the article itself.  (The code for MM05 (EE) and 
>MM03 (EE) are at 
><http://www.climate2003.com/scripts/MM05_EE>http://www.climate2003.com/scripts/MM05_EE 
>and 
><http://www.climate2003.com/scripts/MM03>http://www.climate2003.com/scripts/MM03 
>respectively).  The Wegman Report specifically noted that they 
>verified availability of our source code at the time of their report 
>last summer. Previously, both Huybers and Wahl and Ammann had 
>examined the source code, neither of whom required any assistance 
>from me. Huybers annotated the code in his Supplementary Information.
>
>Given our emphasis on making source code available, your purpose in 
>making this untrue statement was to disparage us, especially when 
>you isolated us for criticism while omitting to report the actual 
>unavailability of data and code  from authors in the field, 
>including your coauthors.
>
>I request that you withdraw this allegation from your submission to 
>Climates of the Past on or before November 2, 2006 or I will take 
>such other steps as I see fit.
>
>Yours truly,
>
>Stephen McIntyre

Dr Timothy J Osborn, Academic Fellow
Climatic Research Unit
School of Environmental Sciences
University of East Anglia
Norwich  NR4 7TJ, UK

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