date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 20:15:53 +0100
from: Clare Goodess <C.Goodess@uea.ac.uk>
subject: Re: Exhibit so far
to: s.keeley@uea.ac.uk,t.osborn@uea.ac.uk,p.jones@uea.ac.uk, k.briffa@uea.ac.uk,m.salmon@uea.ac.uk,t.m.melvin@uea.ac.uk

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Dear all

A bit of blackmail works wonders!  Though this means a final bit of 
work from us.

Best thing is to iterate edits amongst ourselves tomorrow, before 
sending a joint response to Laura.

Clare

At 20:12 15/08/2006, Clare Goodess wrote:
>Dear Laura
>
>At last it seems that we finally have the basis for proper exchange 
>and negotiation on the text and CRU contributions.
>
> From your responses to our face-to-face discussions last week and 
> emails earlier this week, it seemed to us that there was no such 
> basis because you were not prepared to take on board anything that 
> we proposed.  Your refusal to include the global temperature time 
> series despite insistence from Phil and myself was the last straw. 
> Hence our decision that the best thing was to pull out of part of 
> the exhibition.
>
>I think that the text you've sent still needs a lot of work, but I 
>think is sufficiently improved to allow further modification and 
>dialogue tomorrow.
>
>For example, I would still like to see a bit more detailed 
>discussion of natural/anthropogenic forcing and attribution and also 
>a mention of model reliability.   I think that this would be rather 
>more informative/educational than the bullet points about UEA 
>scientists. So could be included without unduly increasing the word count.
>
>In order to better inform our editing tomorrow, it would be very 
>helpful if you could send us the text for what were panels 3 to 5 
>but may have changed number.
>
>Could you tell us whether the 'Talking Heads' section will still be 
>included and if so, which scientists will be involved?
>
>Finally, please remember that an acknowledgement to data sources, 
>including the Hadley Centre (you have the wording for this), needs 
>to be included either on Panel 6 or on the acknowledgements panel. 
>Would it be possible to see the text for the latter?
>
>Best wishes, Clare
>
>

Dr Clare Goodess
Climatic Research Unit
School of Environmental Sciences
University of East Anglia
Norwich
NR4 7TJ
UK

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