date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 15:07:35 +0000 (GMT)
from: Martin Juckes <M.N.Juckes@rl.ac.uk>
subject: First draft
to: mitrie -- Anders Moberg <anders@misu.su.se>, Eduardo Zorita <Eduardo.Zorita@gkss.de>, hegerl@duke.edu, Jan Esper <esper@wsl.ch>, Keith Briffa <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>, Myles Allen <m.allen1@physics.ox.ac.uk>, Nanne Weber <weber@knmi.nl>, t.osborn@uea.ac.uk

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Hello,

here, at last, is a draft review. It is still rough, but I would
appreciate any comments on the from and content. There are probably
plenty of key papers I have forgotten to mention.

I've organised the discussion of the various reconstructions into thematic
sections.

I've also added a couple of plots of my own, going through the steps
of the Mann et al. reconstruction. I am now sceptical about the
ability of his network to reconstruct temperatures back to
1000AD, but back to 1400AD appears to be robust.
The quality of these figures is currently very bad:
I'll deal with that soon.

I don't want to over emphasise the McIntyre and McKitrick claims,
but I thought it was important to go through the major issues.

I've used the Briffa et al. (2001) reconstruction back to 1400AD
rather than the Briffa (2000) reconstruction back to 0, because the
former publication says more about the segment length curse.

cheers,
Martin
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