date: Wed Sep 27 09:25:28 2006 from: Keith Briffa subject: Re: The Holocene-manuscript to: g.swindles@Queens-Belfast.AC.UK Graeme thanks for this - I follow your points - which are very well expressed in the manuscript , but I just wanted to know whether you really believed that this "event" was solar induced . Personally , I am not convinced either way , but I know that your paper adds to the bank of well-dated records that will eventually help settle this . I wonder if you might like to actually address the possibility of a direct volcanic effect in your text , which I feel would add to the "citability" of the paper as the debate grows (which it will). If not, I am happy to publish just as is . If you wished to add a section , including the points you both make here about the possibility of volcanic forcing , them I would be happy to publish as well. Up to you and over to you. cheers Keith At 19:29 26/09/2006, you wrote: Hi Keith, See comments attached. Many thanks, Graeme On Sep 26 2006, Keith Briffa wrote: Graeme First , I am going to recommend immediate publication - perhaps not under the tittle of "rapid communication" , but just as soon as it can be published. Second, could you consider why you attribute the cool/wet evidence to solar forcing at all ? Is this because you believe you show local evidence that is delayed , or are you just persisting with a assumed solar effect and trying not to be too dramatic by suggesting the effect is not solar - but perhaps a response to volcanic forcing. Either way , the point is ambiguous and I would like your opinion before proceeding. Thanks Keith At 20:55 04/09/2006, you wrote: >Dear Keith, > >I have posted you three copies of the manuscript for peer review >(The Holocene) entitled 'A delayed climatic response to solar >forcing at 2800 cal. BP: Multi-proxy evidence from three Irish >peatland (Swindles, Plunkett & Roe). > >Many thanks, > >Graeme > >---- >Graeme Swindles >School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology >Queen's University Belfast >Northern Ireland -- Professor Keith Briffa, Climatic Research Unit University of East Anglia Norwich, NR4 7TJ, U.K. Phone: +44-1603-593909 Fax: +44-1603-507784 [1]http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/people/briffa/ -- Professor Keith Briffa, Climatic Research Unit University of East Anglia Norwich, NR4 7TJ, U.K. Phone: +44-1603-593909 Fax: +44-1603-507784 [2]http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/people/briffa/