date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 10:12:01 -0500 from: "Michael E. Mann" subject: status to: "Raymond s.bradley" , "Malcolm Hughes" , Tim Osborn , "Keith Briffa" , "Phil Jones" Dear All, I've discussed w/ Ray, and the game plan is that we're not going get down into a back-and-forth w/ these folks now. We'll let others, if necessary, comment on their comments, but we're (i.e., Mann/Bradley/Hughes) going to focus our energy now on a formal response in the peer-reviewed literature. I've discussed the matter w/ Nature, who is considering allowing us a response (something that would be brief, making liberal use of supplementary information for technical details, and would presumably go out for peer review). If not, they might do a news story/editorial on this anyway. The alternative, then, would be "Climatic Change"--Steve Schneider has indicated an interest in publishing our response (again, peer-reviewed) in the event that Nature feels its not appropriate (Heike expressed some reticence about publishing a reply to a paper from another journal)... mike ______________________________________________________________ Professor Michael E. Mann Department of Environmental Sciences, Clark Hall University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22903 _______________________________________________________________________ e-mail: mann@virginia.edu Phone: (434) 924-7770 FAX: (434) 982-2137 [1]http://www.evsc.virginia.edu/faculty/people/mann.shtml