date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 20:15:53 +0100 from: Clare Goodess subject: Re: Exhibit so far to: s.keeley@uea.ac.uk,t.osborn@uea.ac.uk,p.jones@uea.ac.uk, k.briffa@uea.ac.uk,m.salmon@uea.ac.uk,t.m.melvin@uea.ac.uk Dear all A bit of blackmail works wonders! Though this means a final bit of work from us. Best thing is to iterate edits amongst ourselves tomorrow, before sending a joint response to Laura. Clare At 20:12 15/08/2006, Clare Goodess wrote: >Dear Laura > >At last it seems that we finally have the basis for proper exchange >and negotiation on the text and CRU contributions. > > From your responses to our face-to-face discussions last week and > emails earlier this week, it seemed to us that there was no such > basis because you were not prepared to take on board anything that > we proposed. Your refusal to include the global temperature time > series despite insistence from Phil and myself was the last straw. > Hence our decision that the best thing was to pull out of part of > the exhibition. > >I think that the text you've sent still needs a lot of work, but I >think is sufficiently improved to allow further modification and >dialogue tomorrow. > >For example, I would still like to see a bit more detailed >discussion of natural/anthropogenic forcing and attribution and also >a mention of model reliability. I think that this would be rather >more informative/educational than the bullet points about UEA >scientists. So could be included without unduly increasing the word count. > >In order to better inform our editing tomorrow, it would be very >helpful if you could send us the text for what were panels 3 to 5 >but may have changed number. > >Could you tell us whether the 'Talking Heads' section will still be >included and if so, which scientists will be involved? > >Finally, please remember that an acknowledgement to data sources, >including the Hadley Centre (you have the wording for this), needs >to be included either on Panel 6 or on the acknowledgements panel. >Would it be possible to see the text for the latter? > >Best wishes, Clare > > Dr Clare Goodess Climatic Research Unit School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ UK Tel: +44 -1603 592875 Fax: +44 -1603 507784 Web: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/ http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~clareg/clare.htm