cc: wayne.elliott@metoffice.com
date: Wed Jul 14 15:20:27 2004
from: Phil Jones <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>
subject: Re: here we go again
to: "Jenkins, Geoff" <geoff.jenkins@metoffice.com>, "Folland, Chris" <chris.folland@metoffice.com>, "Parker, David" <david.parker@metoffice.com>, "Stott, Peter" <peter.stott@metoffice.com>

      Dear All,

          I was warned to this a couple of days ago by Mike Mann.  The pdf to get the
    report is
   [1]http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba478/ba478.pdf
     I've already had Paul Rincon from BBC News online on the phone, asking me about this
    new paper ! I told him there wasn't a story, but I still had a long chat with him. I sent
   him
    a copy of my Reviews of Geophysics paper and he may still do something, but he will
    get back to me first. I also told him there wasn't a paper. I suggest you do the same
    if called.
      If you look at the pdf from the NCPA (the above link) you'll see how bad the piece is. I
   had
    nothing to do with the 1998 or 1999 papers. The 2003 GRL paper was not an update - but an
    alternate one using less series, only those that extended back into the 1st millennium.
   The 2003
    paper by M+M was published before the M+J paper came out !  The borehole issue is
    totally unrelated.  I could go on and on !
      Cheers
      Phil

     We may need to be on guard for press interest in this one me feels&. Comments and
     opinions welcome as ever!

     [2]http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/dailynews/2004/jul/13/news6.html

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