cc: david.parker@metoffice.gov.uk
date: Tue Nov 30 08:38:48 2004
from: Phil Jones <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>
subject: RE: 2004 temperatures
to: "Roland Pease" <roland.pease@bbc.co.uk>

    Roland,
       Sending again. Mistyped something in David's email.
    Phil
    Roland,
       The warmest ten years are 1998 (0.58), 2002 (0.47), 2003 (0.47), 2004 (0.44),
    2001 (0.42) 1997 (0.41), 1995 (0.37), 1999 (0.34), 1990 (0.31), 2000 (0.29). Values
    are deg C above the 1961-90 average.  2004 is still provisional. It could exceed 2002/3 or
   it
    could get beaten by 2001/1997. There are 2 months to go in (Nov and Dec). It shouldn't
   drop or
    gain any more positions.

       So the 10 warmest years have all occurred since 1989: in the last 15 complete years
    (i.e. 1990-2004). Another statement could be that the 6 warmest years have occurred in
    the last 8 years (1997-2004) and the two that are missing are 1999 and 2000 are 8th and
    10th respectively. So 9 of the 10 warmest years have occurred in the last 10 years
   (1995-2004).
    This statement would seem to be the best.
       The only year not in the 10 warmest years that was in the last 10 (1995-2004) was 1996.
   1990
    is there instead.
       I've cc'd this message to David Parker as around the 10-15th December, the Met Office
    will be issuing a press release (probably at the same time as the World Meteorological
    Organization in Geneva).
    Cheers
    Phil
   At 16:49 29/11/2004, you wrote:

     Phil,

     Thanks. Further, are we yet at the point where all of the past ten years are in the
     top-ten positions (ie has the rogue 'cool' year dropped out at the bottom yet?)

     Roland



     -----Original Message-----
     From: Phil Jones [[1]mailto:p.jones@uea.ac.uk]
     Sent: 26 November 2004 13:37
     To: Roland Pease
     Subject: Re: 2004 temperatures
      Roland,
          2004 will be the 4th warmest year, behind 1998 (warmest) and 2002/3 (which are
     equal second).
        On the other question, it is best to ask Mike Mann. He is mann@virginia.edu .
      Mike has written a response and there was a piece commenting on the vol Storch et al.
      paper in Science. Mike's is presumably being reviewed.
      Cheers
      Phil
     At 11:27 26/11/2004, you wrote:

     Dear Professor Jones,
     We came to interview you last year for "Climate Wars" on radio 4.
     I've been asked to record a report as a "curtain raiser" (as we call them) for the
     UNFCCC Buenos Aires meeting, on the theme of <how do we know the climate is warming>.
     I was wondering whether at this stage you have a good idea what this year's global mean
     temperature will be, to keep the facts as current as possible. Also, has there been any
     progress or additional support on the Mann et al 'hockey stick'. von Storch sent me a
     critique of the statistical approach used in the paper (published in Science) - has
     there been or is there likely to be a response?
     Yours sincerely, Roland
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