cc: mhughes@ltrr.arizona.edu, rbradley@geo.umass.edu, t.osborn@uea.ac.uk, wigley@ucar.edu, keith Briffa <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>, Gavin Schmidt <gschmidt@giss.nasa.gov>
date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 08:01:44 -0500
from: "Michael E. Mann" <mann@virginia.edu>
subject: Re: Other issues
to: Phil Jones <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>, Tom Wigley <wigley@cgd.ucar.edu>

   Thanks Phil,
   Yeah--this looks bad too. IJC has published some decent stuff, but lots of crap. Didn't
   R.G. Currie publish nearly all of his notorious solar-looney papers there?
   "New Hope Environmental Sciences" is, it may not surprise anyone, a front organization.
   It's entirely funded by Pat Michaels, through sources of funding whose dubiousness you can
   only begin to imagine. As for U.Va/Michales/Cato, lets just say, something *should* have
   been done a long time ago. That it hasn't, is telling for the institution, and does not
   reflect positively on them in my own current deliberations. More news on that front shortly
   I hope...
   Mike
   At 04:27 AM 1/21/2005, Phil Jones wrote:

      Dear All,

               Been away, but just gone through all the emails. There is another
      poor paper out recently - attached. Tom Karl and Pasha Groisman are
      already working on a response to this one as well. It seems no-one at
      NCDC reviewed this, despite the tone in the first paragraph.
         Whoever reviewed it didn't even question the use of
      INCHES throughout as the rainfall unit !! I'll raise this with the IJC editor when
      I see him next.  IJC has some good papers, but some recent papers
      have been accepted with one review and getting even that takes ages.
      IJC had that appalling paper on Sahel drought earlier in 2004.  Several of
      us wrote a comment (which with a phone call got reviewed quickly)
      which came out in August. I need to check with the editor, but the last
      I heard was that the response to the comment has been rejected - heard
      this from the reviewer (not me) !
         What is the New Hope Environmental Sciences at Charlottesville? 5 Boar's
      Head Lane sounds like an English village address - village with pub, church,
      village shop, bus every other Thursday - oh and a research institute !
        Also doesn't UVa get irked by Michaels giving his Cato affiliation top billing?
           I have been turning down most reviewing requests, over
      the last 6 months because just too much else to do, but none of the
      papers I'm asked to do are contentious in any way. I've been doing
      those that I think are, even if they take time.
      Cheers
      Phil
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     University of East Anglia
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