date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 07:49:02 -0500
from: "Michael E. Mann" <mann@virginia.edu>
subject: Re: CLIVAR abstract
to: Keith Briffa <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>

   Hi Keith,
   Thanks for the clarification.
   I have seen the zero order draft and have looked over it, though not yet in full detail. On
   the whole appears quite fair, and balanced, and comprehensive. Very nice job!
   I still think the borehole discussion is a bit unbalanced. It sounds a lot like Henry
   Pollock to me. The Gonzalez-Rouco simulation is, as we know, somewhat questionable, and
   there is no discussion of the GISS simulation by Mann and Schmidt which suggests a likely
   low-frequency bias. So I'm likely to comment on this in my "official" remarks as a reviewer
   for the chapter (seems a bit odd that I'm both a contributor and reviewer, but as long as
   you all don't mind, I don't either). Other than that, I think my comments will probably be
   minor (you know how rare that is!).
   I see that the comments are due in early April, so I'll probably wait until it gets close
   so that I can provide an update on the status of in-review/in-press manuscripts. For
   example, I'm hoping to work w/ Phil on a sort-of response to Moberg et al, which should be
   quite clarifying (we can get the same result as them, basically, using the Mann and Jones
   series and a similar approach to what they did, but I think I can show that the approach
   does very poorly w/ pseudoproxies). By the way, the Mann et al J. Climate letter on the
   CCSM Pseudoproxy experiments in now provisionally accepted. Will keep you updated.
   Thanks again for keeping me updated, and congratulations on a wonderful job w/ the ZOD. Its
   an improvement on what we had in the TAR for sure, and I really like the fact that it gives
   justice to the large amount of work that has been done by the community since then...
   thanks again,
   mike
   (At 03:50 AM 2/9/2005, you wrote:

     Sorry !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   You can see that I am in "headless chicken mode"  - no idea how
     this message got reworked into my inbox!    Have you seen the zero order draft ?  Where
     are we with balancing views?
     Keith
     At 16:54 08/02/2005, you wrote:

     HI Keith,
     Thanks--this is a very old message. I think we provided this abstract many months ago
     already. SO, unless I misunderstand, nothing for us to do here, I think??
     Mike
     At 11:33 AM 2/8/05, Keith Briffa wrote:

     Mike
     just seen this email - please forward their request again and I will look again
     cheers
     Keith
     At 22:43 12/11/2003, you wrote:

     Dear Keith,
     No doubt you got the reminder that the CLIVAR folks want a (400 word) abstract from us
     by Dec 15th for the June meeting.  Did you want to take the first stab at this, then we
     can iterate back and forth a bit?
     let me know how you want to proceed w/ this...
     Thanks,
     mike
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                           University of Virginia
                          Charlottesville, VA 22903
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     Professor Keith Briffa,
     Climatic Research Unit
     University of East Anglia
     Norwich, NR4 7TJ, U.K.
     Phone: +44-1603-593909
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     _______________________________________________________________________
                          Professor Michael E. Mann
               Department of Environmental Sciences, Clark Hall
                           University of Virginia
                          Charlottesville, VA 22903
     _______________________________________________________________________
     e-mail: mann@virginia.edu   Phone: (434) 924-7770   FAX: (434) 982-2137
            [3]http://www.evsc.virginia.edu/faculty/people/mann.shtml

     --
     Professor Keith Briffa,
     Climatic Research Unit
     University of East Anglia
     Norwich, NR4 7TJ, U.K.
     Phone: +44-1603-593909
     Fax: +44-1603-507784
     [4]http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/people/briffa/

   ______________________________________________________________
                       Professor Michael E. Mann
              Department of Environmental Sciences, Clark Hall
                         University of Virginia
                        Charlottesville, VA 22903
   _______________________________________________________________________
   e-mail: mann@virginia.edu   Phone: (434) 924-7770   FAX: (434) 982-2137
            [5]http://www.evsc.virginia.edu/faculty/people/mann.shtml

