date: Fri Mar 11 08:59:05 2005 from: Phil Jones subject: Re: This and that - and CCSP to: Tom Wigley Tom, In Asheville this week but now back. Had a brief work with Tom K. on the VTT work. So he got a summary like you. I'm not supposed to be talking to anyone of your group except through Tom K. I've just got comments on your exec summ from Dennis Hartmann. I'll go through these this weekend. I think I've effectively signed off on Chapters 3 and 5. You'll likely have to rewrite the summary to pick up the bullet points from the other 6 chapters. Hopefully you'll get comments before May 1. We have to finish by April 1 (there is a conf call on the 18th), which will hopefully be it for me. At the moment the NRC person is having difficulty with my following comment - There is an issue related to land-use/land-cover (LULC) changes that >could be addressed here or maybe elsewhere in other chapters. This is >that in the modeling discussion (in Chapters 5 and 6) LULC is considered >to be a forcing that is in some models and not incorporated in others as >the forcing and its history is uncertain. If it is a forcing (and we >think it is), then we should not be worrying that it influences the >surface or tropospheric temperature record. If it is a forcing then it >needs to be in the data in the order that it might be found. You can't >have it both ways - the data are affected by it, so they are somehow >wrong, yet it is omitted from many models." I do need to work on the English a little, but it should be understandable. Tom K is also very fed up with Pielke ! Cheers Phil PS Have you been getting postcards from Thomson publishing (?) about essential science indicators. I have 3, for 3 papers saying they've been heavily cited. The 3 are from 1997-2003 and have been cited 57, 68 and 41 times ! 3 articles in the top 1% of the field. Articles are the one with Anders Moberg in 2003, one in Science on the last millennium in 2001 and the one on error estimates from 1997. At 23:46 10/03/2005, you wrote: THanx Phil. Some comments in caps .... Tom =========== Phil Jones wrote: BEN WAS REALLY PISSED OFF WITH ROGER -- AS WAS TOM KARL I GUESS (NOT YET TALKED TO HIM). ALL OF HIS POINTS CAN BE SHOT DOWN, BUT IT IS A PAIN NONE THE LESS. APPARENLTY JUDY CURRY EXPOSED HER INFERIORITY COMPLEX (ANS HER INFERIORITY). Tom, Off tomorrow and not back in CRU till March 10. I'm not supposed to talk to anyone of the report authors ! There was a lot of odd things said after the presentations in Chicago last week. We're charged with writing a report, which will be published, but you get to rewrite the report and no-one sees the one we looked at ! What is the point of publishing it ! Roger Pielke didn't come out of it too well. Some thought he had some good ideas but didn't express them very well. Most thought he just didn't express them very well. All thought Ben's was the best chapter. Almost all think RSS is right. Also why is Fu et al. dismissed as controversial? A VERY GOOD POINT TO STRESS. THIS IS CHRISTY'S WORDING. Likely most work will be needed on Ch 6 and 1, then 2-4 and least for 5. The Exec Summary was deemed OK, but it isn't a summary of the report, ACTUALLY, IT IS. ALL ITEMS *ARE* IN THE CHAPTERS -- BUT ONLY THOSE DEEMED MOST IMPORTANT (BY ALL EXCEPT ROGER!!) MAYBE I WILL HAVE TO DO ANOTHER (SIDE) VERSION THAT CITES THE SOURCES BY CHAPTER AND LINE NUMBER. so you'll have to do some major reworking. Remember I didn't tell you all this. Lots of details to come - not sure when. Seems a long-winded process. COMMENTS DUE BY MAY 1, THEN WE HAVE 2 WEEKS TO MODIFY/RESPOND. Cheers Phil Prof. Phil Jones Climatic Research Unit Telephone +44 (0) 1603 592090 School of Environmental Sciences Fax +44 (0) 1603 507784 University of East Anglia Norwich Email p.jones@uea.ac.uk NR4 7TJ UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Phil Jones Climatic Research Unit Telephone +44 (0) 1603 592090 School of Environmental Sciences Fax +44 (0) 1603 507784 University of East Anglia Norwich Email p.jones@uea.ac.uk NR4 7TJ UK ----------------------------------------------------------------------------