date: Wed Feb  6 13:36:32 2008
from: Phil Jones <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>
subject: A warning for Feb 7-8
to: Robert Marsh <rma@noc.soton.ac.uk>

      Bob,

           Maybe you're the Robert Marsh giving a poster at a meeting of
    paleo types in London tomorrow - Burlington House.
       If not ignore this message.
     You'll get one good talk from Jim Hansen. You'll
    get one awful talk on the Friday from a Vincent Courtillot. If he
    lays into me, or says the world isn't warming you have my permission
    to go and put the boot it. Shouldn't be difficult.
     Have emailed Jim as well.
    Vincent is a prat, but he's a well connected prat - French Academy and all that.
    He's been making life a misery for Eduoard Bard.
    I can't make it - I'm just trying to help Eduoard!
    If you're not the Robert Marsh, I can explain more next time we meet!
    Cheers
    Phil
    PS Some background if you can read french!
    From: Edouard BARD <bard@cerege.fr>
   Subject: London meeting
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   Dear Phil,
   Sorry to bother you again with this stuff, but it is important to keep you tuned.
   Besides the informations sent previously (e.g. my messages pasted below), you should know
   that Courtillot keeps saying and writing publicly that you did errors in your publications
   and datasets available to the public. A further example is the video of his talk available
   on the IPGP web site. In the front row of the packed audience, you can even see the
   president of CNRS (Ms. Brechignac) and the former Director of Scientific Research of the
   Ministry (Ms Giacobino). I paste below some comments (in French) that I wrote to colleagues
   about when Courtillot lies about your work.
   The main reason for my email is also to inform you about the forthcoming meeting in London
   during which Courtillot will give a keynote lecture just after Jim Hansen ! The title of
   his presentation is particularly appealing "Which global warming?".
   This is the annual meeting of the British Geophysical Association "New Advances in
   Geophysics" on the theme "Geophysics of Global Climate Change". "The aim of the meeting is
   to bring together the diverse strands of geophysical research into climate change". The six
   keynote speakers are the following
   Dr. Jim Hansen, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
   Dr. Heiko Palike, NOC, Southampton
   Prof. Vincent Courtillot, IPG, Paris
   Dr. David Pyle, Oxford
   Dr. Mark Siddall, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
   Prof. Paul Wilson, NOC, Southampton
   More info can be found on the following web site:
   [1]http://www.personal.soton.ac.uk/~heiko/NAG2008/NAG2008.html
   I hope that you will be able to attend or that somebody from your lab will be able to
   respond to the detailed accusations propagated by Courtillot.
   Best wishes, Edouard
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     J'ai pris le temps de regarder la confrence de Courtillot  l'IPGP le 10 janvier
     disponible en ligne sur le site web de l'IPGP: [2]http://www.ipgp.jussieu.fr/ , cliquer
     sur actualits, sminaires, vidos, 10 janvier)
     Beaucoup de choses  redire, mais ce serait trop long (en particulier au sujet de la
     pirouette de la translation + homothtie pour l'irradiance solaire). Au sujet de la
     courbe qu'ils ont intitule Tglobe, Courtillot dit trs distinctement:
     Fichier "Expos I"  23 min et 40 sec.: "Cette courbe est bien de Monsieur Jones. Elle
     est bien dans son article de 1999 de Reviews of Geophysics."
     Fichier "Conclusions"  7 min. et 30 sec.: "C'est eux qui se sont tromps. Quand nous,
     nous avions pris cette courbe, il y a cinq ans dans l'article de Reviews of Geophysics,
     on a bien videmment admis que la lgende de Jones et ses donnes taient vraies. Ce
     sont bien ses donnes, mais sa lgende est fausse".
     Toute personne qui prend ce fameux papier de Jones et al. (1999, Rev. Geophys.) peut
     constater que ces deux assertions sont totalement FAUSSES. A noter que la prsidente du
     CNRS est assise au premier rang.

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     Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:23:55 +0100
     To: Phil Jones <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>
     From: Edouard BARD <bard@cerege.fr>
     Subject: additional file (attached PDF)
     X-Attachments:   :Macintosh HD:1254945:Pierrehumbert/Pasotti.pdf:
     Phil,
     In complement to my email of last week (pasted below), I attach the Comment submitted by
     Ray to Science.
     Cheers, Edouard
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     Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:19:42 +0100
     To: Phil Jones <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>
     From: Edouard BARD <bard@cerege.fr>
     Subject: French daggers (+ 3 attached files)
     X-Attachments:  :Macintosh HD:1254945:VC-DroitReponse - Acad.doc: :Macintosh
     HD:1254945:Acad01-08-SH.ppt: :Macintosh HD:929141:LeMonde16/1/08.pdf:
     Hello Phil,
     Ray sent a formal letter to Science. This is submitted for publication in the paper
     version of Science. Given the size limit (300 words) he couldn't give many details about
     the temperature data. An additional possibility for commenting is through what they call
     an e-letter that goes quicker.
     Note that during the 'Secret Committee' last Tuesday at the Academy, Courtillot and
     Allgre ferociously accused me for organizing a plot against their institute IPGP. As I
     told you, nobody was there to defend my case. Note also that Courtillot makes direct and
     vicious attacks against you:
     This started in the official 'Lettre de l'Acadmie' in which he wrote a long interview
     following the meetings in March 2007. I think you have this document already. You can
     download it again from:
     [3]http://www.academie-sciences.fr/publications/lettre.htm
     On page 3, Courtillot accuses you for hiding the temperature data and express his doubts
     about your computations. On page 25, Courtillot writes:
     "Je suis en discussion depuis nos journes avec le professeur Jones, un change amical
     et rgulier pour essayer de voir si nous pouvons reprendre et comparer nos donnes aux
     leurs. Pour l'instant cela semble difficile, ce laboratoire ayant sign un accord de
     confidentialit avec les fournisseurs de donnes brutes ! Reconstituer cette base de
     donnes avec un accs aux donnes de l'ensemble des stations mtorologiques du monde
     est un travail considrable, puisque le professeur Jones a dans sa base de donnes 3,7
     millions de tempratures mensuelles depuis 1850. Or nous avons des doutes croissants sur
     la validit d'un calcul que pour l'instant nous n'avons pas tous les lments pour
     reprendre."
     Last Tuesday, during the 'Secret Committee' at the Academy, Courtillot reiterated his
     doubts and distributed to all academicians a text (attached Word file) and made a
     powerpoint presentation (attached PPT file). This documents also includes the editorial
     note that will be published by Rob van der Hilst in the next EPSL issue in order to
     print my note added in proof and to clarify the data sources. Part of Courtillot's text
     is already published in Le Monde (+ edits)  and will be published in other major French
     newspapers. On pages 5, 6 8, and in Le Monde Courtillot writes:
     "Sans trop rentrer dans les dtails techniques, il nous a t reproch d'avoir utilis
     des donnes dont les rfrences n'taient pas ce que nous disions. Notamment une srie
     de donnes que nous attribuions  un chercheur britannique, M. Jones, n'tait pas
     reconnue par ce chercheur comme provenant de lui. Nous avons tabli que ce chercheur
     faisait erreur et que les donnes taient bien les siennes et que nous n'avions en rien
     altr ses donnes. Nous les attribuions en revanche par erreur  tout un hmisphre de
     la terre alors qu'elles taient en fait rduites  la zone de latitudes allant de 20N
     au ple. Cette confusion rsulte principalement d'un manque de clart des lgendes des
     articles de Jones et de ses co-auteurs eux-mmes, mais surtout, et c'est le plus
     important pour le dbat scientifique, elle est sans consquences sur nos conclusions,
     les diverses sries de donnes concernes tant peu diffrentes, comme il est ais de le
     vrifier. Dans la note voque par S. Huet, Bard et Delaygue nous ont accuss de fausse
     citation, en arguant du tmoignage (erron) de Jones."
     Note that Courtillot makes as if the file he used is taken directly from Jones et al.
     (1999) as cited in his paper, instead of explaining that it is a different curve,
     constructed for a very specific purpose in Briffa et al. (2001) of which you are
     coauthor. What is amazing is that Courtillot claims that the only confusion is between a
     record for latitude >20N instead of the northern hemisphere. This is crazy because the
     confusion is between the global curve and a curve not only for latitudes >20N BUT also
     only for continents and during the April-September warm season. Looking again at Figure
     2 page 178 of Jones et al. (1999), it don't see any "lack of clarity" in your
     three-panel figure! It is even obvious that the Tglobe curve he used is similar to the
     northern Hemispheric one instead of the global one. This was actually the reason of my
     initial doubt expressed in the submitted version of my EPSL Comment. In addition, I
     don't see why the statement form you I used in my note added in proof would be
     erroneous:
     "We were unable to find this file even by contacting its putative author who
     specifically stated to us that it is not one of his files (Dr. Philip D. Jones, written
     communication dated Oct. 23, 2007)."
     This statement is completely true. This is indeed not one of your UEA file. Second, the
     first part of the URL is incomplete and incorrect (dots are missing). We now know that
     this file DOES exist at NOAA BUT that it is NOT what has been plotted by Courtillot et
     al.:
     [4]http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/anomalies/anomalies.html
     [5]ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/anomalies/monthly.land.90S.90N.df_1901-2000mean.dat
     Hence, if I had not submitted my note added in proof, the readers would be unable to
     locate the file and would believe that it is a (land) global temperature file. In any
     case the file was not the one plotted on their Figure now replotted in Science !
     Best wishes, Edouard

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