cc: Mike Wallace , John Kennedy date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 13:27:02 +0100 from: David Thompson subject: Re: Decision on Nature manuscript 2008-01-00939A to: Phil Jones Phil, I know what you mean about liaising over a press release. It's occurred to me the work might be misused by the skeptics. My knee-jerk reaction was to have nothing to do with the press on this. I figured it would be easy to be quoted out of context, and I thought I'd let the work speak for itself. I also don't think the fringe skeptics are worth an ounce of my time. But ... maybe that's too strong of a reaction. I'm certainly open to crafting a few paragraphs which we all agree on. And I'm happy to entrain other folks in the release. I don't know if Nature are doing a news and views item. If they are, I'll suggest they contact, say, Dick Reynolds and maybe Susan. -Dave On Apr 9, 2008, at 12:28 PM, Phil Jones wrote: Dave, An email came last night to update my profile with Nature, so I expected this. Congratulations again! Once we have the proofs, we'll need to liaise over a press release. We need to be very careful what we say. When we do these with the global T figures the UEA and Met Office press offices work together. I reckon we should use this process again - and involve David Parker, Chris Folland and possibly John Mitchell in the drafting of this. The press release will need to briefly mention the implications of this for the long-term trend and also the changes that will be made to the SSTs (not just for 1945-60) but also potentially to the recent few years from the buoy dominance now. Do you know Dave if Nature are doing a news and views item on the paper? If they aren't it would be good to try and get them to do one and have Dick Reynolds do it. Dick could then discuss the implications of both these points. In both of the above, I'm trying to head off the obvious skeptic backlash who'll say we can't measure T properly, so why should we believe the rest of the global T data. I know all that you've done is kosher and we learn of problems through varied analyses, but the skeptics won't see it this way - and they'll try and rake up as much as they can. As for the proofs I'll be away the week before you come to Norwich (so away April 21-25). Also away May 12-16. I should be in email contact these week though. I don't think we'd gain much with a cover picture. The paper isn't really about volcanoes. I wouldn't bother with the front cover. The attached may be useful when you're talking about this. This just shows that the US destroyed most of their WW2 logs. I got this from Scott Woodruff in Boulder. The name of the person who signed this is cropped. Scott did that to protect the guilty! The person is still alive - I'm told! Cheers Phil At 11:31 09/04/2008, David Thompson wrote: Yeehaw. Nature made a decision very quickly (the editor actually emailed to say the manuscript would be accepted within about 2 hours of my submitting the revised version). Two quick questions: 1. I think we should all have a chance to review the page proofs ... we won't be able to make major changes, but I think it's important everyone is comfortable with every word. I imagine I'll receive the proofs within the next few weeks. Does anyone have any extended travel plans during that period? 2. They've asked if I'd like to submit a possible cover image. I imagine a version of our Fig 2 (with the volcanos labeled on the figure) would be a strong candidate. But I'm not sure we'll gain much from being on the cover. And I don't want to give the impression we're grandstanding. 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