date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 10:03:59 +0000 from: "Ruddimans" subject: Re: Anything new? to: Keith Briffa Keith---Wow, sounds like it's totally hopeless at your end. That's something of a relief at this end! And--as I suspected, Brambatti was lying about having all the other papers in hand. Who knows what others are outstanding. A month or so ago, I did think up a paper I wouldn't mind writing (it would actually be a bit of fun), and I am at least partially qualified to do it. It would cite Paul Crutzen's proposal to call the last 200 years the "Anthropocene", and then go off on a brief summary of precursor things humans had done pre-1800 AD that were either large in amplitude but less than global in scale (land-surface changes) or global in scale but small in amplitude (the latter leading to a brief re-hash of my rice/methane hypothesis, just published in QSR). This could be easily done in a few weeks. But for this??? I don't have much faith in Brambatti, and Morner's chaotic mind could bring any project to its knees. So--I'll stew awhile, knowing you are still "outstanding' too. Regards, Bill ---------- >From: Keith Briffa >To: "Ruddimans" >Subject: Re: Anything new? >Date: Thu, Jan 17, 2002, 2:41 PM > >Hi Bill >the truth is that I DID INTEND to do something short , and said to >Brambatti that I would. I knew I would be bogged down with masses of more >important stuff . I now have outstanding - >Finishing off 2 papers for A special issue of the Holocene and editing >/polishing 4 others . This is supposed to be in end of January. >Writing a summary paper for a Swiss Tree-ring conference due in Dec past! >Writing a similar thing for the PEP3 Nice conference - due in now. >Writing a whole book chapter on tree-rings for a book by Rick Battarbee >Finishing a chapter for PAGES synthesis - by Ray me and others - due in a week >Writing a perspectives piece for Science - at end January >And to top it all - as from yesterday teaching a course here on Climate >change for next 3 months. >So you can see it is all pretty hopeless. I still don't know what form or >where this Italian thing will appear and Brambatti has been regularly >contacting me to ask for the paper - the last few messages I have not >replied to .I do feel a little ( but not a lot) guilty about this but I >certainly did not know before replying to his invitation , that he wanted a >paper . I feel I must try and do something but I am reluctant without a >firm reassurance of what will be published and when . What are you doing then? >Keith > >At 09:01 AM 1/17/02 +0000, you wrote: >>Keith---I got a phone call this week from George Kukla, who had recently >>gotten an email from Brambatti complaining about not hearing anything from >>me and claiming that George and I were the only two people left who had not >>submitted manuscripts for the conference. George likely will get something >>in fairly soon; I recall he presented a new idea at the conference and would >>want to see it out. The Brambatti email also said Oldfield had sent >>something in. >> >>So---out of morbid curiosity, what about you? Did you send something in? >>If so, was it recycled or new? Or if not, do you plan to do so? And when? >> >> >>I still have a major reluctance to putting my name on anything with which >>Neils Morner is involved, but it looks as if it's getting close to time for >>me to decide. I do have a general notion for a very short figure-less paper >>that touches on some aspects of my talk, and could write it up in a month or >>so, but.........groan. >> >>Regards, >> >>Bill > >-- >Professor Keith Briffa, >Climatic Research Unit >University of East Anglia >Norwich, NR4 7TJ, U.K. > >Phone: +44-1603-593909 >Fax: +44-1603-507784 > >http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/people/briffa/ > >