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date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 09:53:11 +0100
from: Phil Jones <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>
subject: Re: Antwort: Re: CR and the editorial/paper in the latest issue
to: Mike Hulme <m.hulme@uea.ac.uk>, "Wolfgang Cramer (PIK)" <Wolfgang.Cramer@pik-potsdam.de>, Hans.von.Storch@gkss.de

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  Dear Mike, Hans et al,
       I told Hans I wouldn't email him whilst he was on holiday, but 
Mike's and the exchange
  has prompted me to share a few sentences I received in an email on 
Tuesday.  Here it is, it
  relates to the paper in EOS and comes from someone within AGU.

  ------
I thought I would gag when I heard that Soon contacted AGU to question the 
nature of the review (to which your piece was subjected) and claimed that 
this was a clear effort to politicize the issue (he would never do that). 
Of course he stressed that he and his colleagues were only interested in 
the science and not the political aspects of the issue.
------

   In CRU we have only issued a few press releases related to articles that 
were about
  to come out - related to extremes of daily rainfall over the 
UK/Iberia.  We've normally waited
  for the press to contact us. They only do wrt Nature and Science articles 
- never for J. Climate,
  JGR, IJC and CR.  The EOS article got little publicity yet Soon still 
implies that we are trying to
  politicize the issue. I've never experienced so many calls/emails about 
the Soon/Baliunas article
  back in March/April.

     So maybe here's a test - do you issue a press release when a paper 
comes out or are
  you just happy the article has finally made it into print ? I think all 
of us fall in the later
  category.  CRU's press releases have generally fallen flat or been 
subsumed by world events.

  Cheers
  Phil



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