date: Wed Jun 4 13:05:54 2008 from: Phil Jones subject: Some items of news! to: wigley@ucar.edu, Ben Santer , Janice Lough Dear All, 1. See below re Jean's new 5-year job - at the Gold Coast campus. 2. Dave Viner has a new job shortly - the Climate Change co-ordinator for the British Council. Yes, Dave will be Britain's image abroad! 3. [1]http://www1.uea.ac.uk/cm/home/schools/sci/env/events/chelseasilver Funniest thing here was that the UK Environment Minister came round and he thought the low and high emissions gardens related to the plant's ability to take up CO2! 4. -----Original Message----- From: Steve McIntyre [[2]mailto:stephen.mcintyre@utoronto.ca] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 5:09 PM To: alan.ovenden@uea.ac.uk Subject: Farmer et al 1989 Dear Sir, Can you please send me a pdf of the Farmer et al 1989, cited in Folland andPArker 1995, which, in turn is cited in the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. Thanks, Steve McIntyre Farmer, G., Wigley, T. M. L., Jones, P. D. and Salmon, M., 1989 'Documenting and explaining recent global-mean temperature changes'. Climatic Research Unit, Norwich, Final Report to NERC, UK, Contract GR3/6565 (unpublished) Mike is going to scan this and put it on the CRU web site. This is one of those pieces of work over the years that we probably should have written up more. Had a look through it this morning and it reads very well and shows we did a lot of work and know what we're talking about when it comes to SST adjustments and buckets. Maybe it will show that idiots at CA and Roger Pielke Sr that we know what we're doing! [3]http://climatesci.org/2008/06/03/biased-view-of-the-global-average-temperauture-trend-d ata-at-real-climate/ I appear to have got my own thread in the last few days - one person thinks I should be struck off, for poor research practice! Cheers Phil Subject: FW: Fw: PENNY WONG MEDIA RELEASE - INTERNATIONAL EXPERT TO HEAD CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH BODY - 3 JUNE 2008 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 11:11:54 +0100 X-MS-Has-Attach: yes X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Fw: PENNY WONG MEDIA RELEASE - INTERNATIONAL EXPERT TO HEAD CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH BODY - 3 JUNE 2008 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] Thread-Index: AcjFz/Db9bRS3OkmRo2fcWjSQIMqTwAWsK3wAAAsNOA= From: "Adger Neil Prof \(ENV\)" To: "Jones Philip Prof \(ENV\)" ___________________________________________________________________________________ From: Adger Neil Prof (ENV) Sent: 04 June 2008 11:10 To: Burgess Jacquelin Prof (ENV); 'p.d.jones@uea.ac.uk'; Watson Robert Prof (ENV); Watkinson Andrew Prof (ENV); Davies Trevor Prof (ENV) Subject: FW: Fw: PENNY WONG MEDIA RELEASE - INTERNATIONAL EXPERT TO HEAD CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH BODY - 3 JUNE 2008 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] Folks Australiaâs new Minister of Environment announced this morning the appointment of Director of the new Adaptation Research Facility (multi-million dollar consortium of Aus universityies along with CSIRO). The Director is Jean Palutikof. Great for her. And good for our networks to the Australian partners involved in this effort. Neil X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.2 To: Snow Barlow , Jon Barnett , David Karoly , Ian Mansergh , David Lyster , David Griggs Subject: Fw: PENNY WONG MEDIA RELEASE - INTERNATIONAL EXPERT TO HEAD CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH BODY - 3 JUNE 2008 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] From: Ian.Mansergh@dse.vic.gov.au Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 09:12:42 +1000 Developments at Griffith ----- Forwarded by Ian Mansergh/DSE/VICGOV1 on 04/06/2008 09:12 AM ----- "Senator the Hon Penny Wong - media releases" Sent by: climatepublic-bounces@erin.gov.au 03/06/2008 09:17 PM To climatepublic@erin.gov.au cc Subject PENNY WONG MEDIA RELEASE - INTERNATIONAL EXPERT TO HEAD CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH BODY - 3 JUNE 2008 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] SENATOR THE HON PENNY WONG Minister for Climate Change and Water 3 June 2008 INTERNATIONAL EXPERT TO HEAD CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH BODY Minister for Climate Change and Water, Senator Penny Wong, today welcomed the appointment of eminent international research scientist, Dr Jean Palutikof, to head the GovernmentâÃôs Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility. Griffith University, which hosts the facility, announced Dr PalutikofâÃôs appointment today. âÃúDr Palutikof has more than 20 yearsâÃô experience researching the potential effects of climate change and how best to respond to those effects,âÃù Senator Wong said. âÃúHer work includes a major contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ChangeâÃôs latest global assessment of climate change, with a particular focus on impacts and adaptation.âÃù Senator Wong said the Rudd Government saw climate change as one of the greatest challenges facing Australia and was already implementing an ambitious agenda to respond to the challenge. âÃúAdapting to the impacts of climate change resulting from the growing level of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere is a key pillar of our climate change strategy. âÃúWe are starting to see the effects of climate change now and the way we respond will have far-reaching impacts for our economy, our environment and our society. âÃúThis is not a choice between a no-cost option and an option with costs. It is a choice about whether we take responsible action now âÃì or neglect to act and face much higher costs. âÃúOur decision-making needs to be informed by sound science and the Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility will lead the national research effort. âÃúWork in this area is in its infancy and the facilityâÃôs initial priorities will be to identify adaptation research priorities and establish networks to encourage cooperation among our leading researchers. âÃúA truly cooperative effort on this front is needed, and Dr Palutikof will play an important role in bringing together the best brains in Australia.âÃù The GovernmentâÃôs climate change strategy is built around three key pillars âÃì reducing AustraliaâÃôs greenhouse gas emissions, adapting to climate change that we cannot avoid, and helping to shape a global solution. ------If you have received this transmission in error please notify us immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. 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