date: Tue May 6 09:19:06 2008 from: Tim Osborn subject: Re: JOC-08-0098 - International Journal of Climatology to: g.mcgregor@auckland.ac.nz Hi Glenn -- I hope the slow reviewer is not one that I suggested! Sorry if it is. I'm not sure what Ben Santer expects you to do about it at this stage; I guess you didn't expect such a lengthy article... I've not seen it, but Phil Jones told me it ran to around 90 pages! Hope all's well in NZ. Tim At 03:32 06/05/2008, Ben Santer wrote: Dear Glenn, This is a little disappointing. We decided to submit our paper to IJoC in order to correct serious scientific errors in the Douglass et al. IJoC paper. We believe that there is some urgency here. Extraordinary claims are being made regarding the scientific value of the Douglass et al. paper, in part by co-authors of that paper. One co-author (S. Fred Singer) has used the findings of Douglass et al. to buttress his argument that "Nature not CO2, rules the climate". The longer such erroneous claims are made without any form of scientific rebuttal, the more harm is caused. In our communications with Dr. Osborn, we were informed that the review process would be handled as expeditiously as possible. Had I known that it would take nearly two months until we received a complete set of review comments, I would not have submitted our paper to IJoC. With best regards, Ben Santer g.mcgregor@auckland.ac.nz wrote: 05-May-2008 JOC-08-0098 - Consistency of Modelled and Observed Temperature Trends in the Tropical Troposphere Dear Dr Santer I am hoping to have the remaining set of comments with 2 weeks of so. As soon as I have these in hand I will pass them onto to you. Best, Prof. Glenn McGregor -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Benjamin D. Santer Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory P.O. Box 808, Mail Stop L-103 Livermore, CA 94550, U.S.A. Tel: (925) 422-2486 FAX: (925) 422-7675 email: santer1@llnl.gov ----------------------------------------------------------------------------