cc: "Keith Briffa" date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:43:20 +0000 from: Tim Osborn subject: Re: FW: Juckes et al Submission to: "Martin Juckes" Hi Martin, I was just wondering what your initial reaction to McIntyre's message might be, and whether you plan to ignore it, respond to it, or accept it? Cheers Tim At 14:06 29/10/2006, Steve McIntyre wrote: >[Steve McIntyre] The word "code" should have been used instead of >"methods". The version below amends and supercedes the email just sent to you. > >Dear Dr Juckes, > >In your recent submission to Climate of the Past, now available for >comment on the Internet, you make the following untrue and >defamatory statement: > >
The code used by MM2005 [the GRL article] is not, at >the time of writing, available, …. >
> >As you either know or should know, the code used in McIntyre and >McKitrick 2005 is available at the Supplementary Information to the >article at >ftp://ftp.agu.org/apend/gl/2004GL021750, >as is made clear in the article itself. (The code for MM05 (EE) and >MM03 (EE) are at >http://www.climate2003.com/scripts/MM05_EE >and >http://www.climate2003.com/scripts/MM03 >respectively). The Wegman Report specifically noted that they >verified availability of our source code at the time of their report >last summer. Previously, both Huybers and Wahl and Ammann had >examined the source code, neither of whom required any assistance >from me. Huybers annotated the code in his Supplementary Information. > >Given our emphasis on making source code available, your purpose in >making this untrue statement was to disparage us, especially when >you isolated us for criticism while omitting to report the actual >unavailability of data and code from authors in the field, >including your coauthors. > >I request that you withdraw this allegation from your submission to >Climates of the Past on or before November 2, 2006 or I will take >such other steps as I see fit. > >Yours truly, > >Stephen McIntyre Dr Timothy J Osborn, Academic Fellow Climatic Research Unit School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK e-mail: t.osborn@uea.ac.uk phone: +44 1603 592089 fax: +44 1603 507784 web: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~timo/ sunclock: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~timo/sunclock.htm