date: Thu Oct  1 14:14:40 2009
from: Tim Osborn <t.osborn@uea.ac.uk>
subject: Re: The McIntyre Silliness
to: BigCity Lib <bigcitylib@hotmail.com>

   Dear BCL / M.J. Murphy,
   yes, unfortunately Keith Briffa is currently on sick leave.  A brief response has just been
   put together, focussing first on the allegation of deliberate data selection/exclusion.
   Consideration of other aspects (e.g. what is the most defensible selection of data to use)
   will have to await further analysis of McIntyre's claims.
   The brief response is linked to (as of about 5 minutes ago) from the NEWS section of our
   main webpage:
   <[1]http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/>
   Thanks for you email,
   Tim
   At 14:52 30/09/2009, you wrote:


     I am told that Mr. Briffa is sick and correspondence might be directed to you.
     I assume the short answer to this:

     [2]http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=7168

      is that legitimate proxies must match the modern record of warming as shown by the
     observational record?

     Anyway, if you would like to respond I write for The Mark News

     [3]http://www.themarknews.com/

     and blog here:

     [4]http://bigcitylib.blogspot.com/

     usually about politics but also quite frequently about AGW issues.  I can see that your
     response is fairly broadly circulated.

     Cheers,

     BCL
     M.J.Murphy
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