date: Mon Aug  4 09:07:04 2008
from: Phil Jones <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>
subject: Re: last news + PDF
to: Edouard Bard <bard@cerege.fr>

    Edouard,
       Thanks for the reprint - awful as it is. Enjoy the time in Noumea
    and try and forget about it. I also hope that the paper supposedly
    submitted to J. Climate gets a better review than this - I'm sure it will!
      I can't see how they get the results they do for minimum temperature.
    DTR has reduced a little, but the long-term trends would be similar to
    mean temperature. It is amazing that they can't understand that the
    trends should be similar to SSTs on long timescales.
    Cheers
    Phil
   At 02:16 30/07/2008, you wrote:

     Dear Phil,
     Le Mouël & Courtillot just published a paper described their results
     in the proceedings of the French Academy of Sciences (attached PDF in
     which you get criticized on page 3). This is basically what Le Mouël
     described in his lecture available in video. Not much details about
     the stats, because they refer to another paper submitted to Journal of
     Climate. The first paper didn't get seriously reviewed as it was
     edited by Claude Jaupart, former director of IPGP and close friend of
     Courtillot & Le Mouël. I hope that the paper submitted to Journal of
     Climate will be reviewed by serious and competent referees (no more
     but no less than it deserves).
     Best wishes, Edouard
     P.S.: I send this message from Noumea in French Caledonia where I
     collaborate with coral reef and oceanography experts. I will also give
     a few lectures and organize a one-day workshop on sea level changes.

   Prof. Phil Jones
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