cc: wayne.elliott@metoffice.com date: Wed Jul 14 15:20:27 2004 from: Phil Jones subject: Re: here we go again to: "Jenkins, Geoff" , "Folland, Chris" , "Parker, David" , "Stott, Peter" Dear All, I was warned to this a couple of days ago by Mike Mann. The pdf to get the report is [1]http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba478/ba478.pdf I've already had Paul Rincon from BBC News online on the phone, asking me about this new paper ! I told him there wasn't a story, but I still had a long chat with him. I sent him a copy of my Reviews of Geophysics paper and he may still do something, but he will get back to me first. I also told him there wasn't a paper. I suggest you do the same if called. If you look at the pdf from the NCPA (the above link) you'll see how bad the piece is. I had nothing to do with the 1998 or 1999 papers. The 2003 GRL paper was not an update - but an alternate one using less series, only those that extended back into the 1st millennium. The 2003 paper by M+M was published before the M+J paper came out ! The borehole issue is totally unrelated. I could go on and on ! Cheers Phil We may need to be on guard for press interest in this one me feels&. Comments and opinions welcome as ever! [2]http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/dailynews/2004/jul/13/news6.html Wayne Elliott Senior Press Officer Met Office FitzRoy Road Exeter Devon EX1 3PB United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)1392 884629 Fax: +44 (0)1392 885681 Mobile: 07753 880687 E-mail: wayne.elliott@metoffice.com [3]http://www.metoffice.com 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 p.jones@uea.ac.uk NR4 7TJ UK ----------------------------------------------------------------------------