cc: Christoph Kull , bo@gfy.ku.dk, thompson.4@osu.edu, EWWO@bas.ac.uk, Eduardo Zorita , jan.esper@wsl.ch, Janice Lough , Juerg Luterbacher , Keith Briffa , Tim Osborn , Ricardo Villalba , Kim Cobb , Heinz Wanner , Jonathan Overpeck , Michael Schulz , Eystein Jansen , Nick Graham , Francis Zwiers , Caspar Ammann , "Michael E. Mann" , Gavin Schmidt , Sandy Tudhope , "Wahl, Eugene R" , Tas van Ommen , "Williams, Larry" date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 12:10:19 +0200 from: Thorsten Kiefer subject: Re: Past Millennia Climate Variability - Review Paper - reminder to: Phil Jones Dear all, tomorrow will be the one-year anniversary of the PAGES/CLIVAR & EPRI workshop in Wengen, which as we were assured repeatedly from many of you, was very enjoyable and fruitful. As pleasant as it was to get enthusiastic feedback, in the long term it will not suffice to feed the workshop sponsors and to keep their lenders happy. From talking with Larry Williams from EPRI I can tell that he is of the same opinion. The only product from the workshop that has materialised so far is the EOS report (Thanks Mike et al.!), whereas the synthesis and the PR Challenge haven't. Undoubtedly, you all know the rules of the game, so my only point here is to remind you that they do operate. EPRI, PAGES and CLIVAR are also about to engage in the follow-up workshop project on "proxy data uncertainties" that was born out of the Wengen meeting. So many of you might yet again enjoy another workshop. We as sponsors are happy to engage in this, because of the important science questions addressed and excellent scientists involved. But, as said above, to maintain support it is paramount that the ideas result in products. My plea therefore is that you revisit your priorities and check whether you rank "Writing the Wengen synthesis chapter" high enough :-) The aim has to be to get the synthesis paper submitted before the summer break. From what I have seen, the paper could become a milestone contribution to the paleoclimate discussion. In that sense, many thanks to those of you who have already contributed or are about to do so, and to Phil for his heroic work to pull this together!! I look forward to the completed manuscript, Best regards, Thorsten On 30 May 2007, at 16:23, Phil Jones wrote: Dear All, There has been some progress. I have contributions from Gene and Gavin. Keith (2.3) and Tim (3) here in CRU tell me they are working on their parts. Francis (5) also tells me he has also started. Tas told me about 6 weeks ago he would finish the ice core part (section 2.3) shortly. So we are getting there. I still need input from Caspar (section 4), Nick (section 2.6), Peck (section 2.5). I have added in the section names of the missing sections to help you all along. Also need people to begin reading through the whole paper, but this is premature yet. I saw Thorsten at the EGU and he emailed recently saying that Larry (EPRI) is keen to see this submitted soon. Remember it was through PAGES and EPRI support that we had such a great few days in Wengen almost a year ago! If we all put some effort in over June we could be there. Can Gene and Gavin send me their references when they have a few minutes. I suspect most will be in Mann et al. (2007), so if I can get that I can add them in. I won't pass this on to any others. 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 [1]p.jones@uea.ac.uk NR4 7TJ UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Thorsten Kiefer PAGES International Project Office Sulgeneckstrasse 38, 3007 Bern, Switzerland tel: +41-(0)31-312 3154 fax: +41-(0)31-312 3168 [2]kiefer@pages.unibe.ch [3]http://www.pages-igbp.org/