date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 16:49:57 +0100
from: Heinz Wanner <wanner@giub.unibe.ch>
subject: Re: Hockeystick
to: Keith Briffa <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>

Dear Keith,

thanks for the quick answer. For me it is absolutely clear that I will not
tear down the excellent IPCC work. For that reason I do actually not give
an interview to SPIEGEL. I am also a bit irritated about some reactions of
Hans von Storch concerning this story. I will contact him personally (and
friendly).

Just two additional comments:
1) I am ready to review the paleoclimate section you are writing and
editing for IPCC because it covers one of my central interests.
2) I will really help to push the whole reconstruction story within PAGES
and PAGES-CLIVAR. In our group we will not be active in constructing
another 1000 years hockeystick, but we will carefully go on in
reconstructing high-quality temperature and precipitation for the period
from 1000 to 2005 AD in the Atlantic-European area (in collaboration with
our mathematics and statistics institute). 

I hope to see you in Vienna in April or at least at the next SOAP meeting.

Heinz




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