cc: abp@dar.csiro.au,a.minns@uea.ac.uk,c.goodess@uea.ac.uk, j.salinger@niwa.cri.nz,N.W.Arnell@soton.ac.uk,Peter.Whetton@csiro.au, p.martens@icis.unimaas.nl,rob.wilby@kcl.ac.uk, simon.shackley@umist.ac.uk,simon.torok@csiro.au,tim.carter@vyh.fi date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 09:53:11 +0100 from: Phil Jones subject: Re: Antwort: Re: CR and the editorial/paper in the latest issue to: Mike Hulme , "Wolfgang Cramer (PIK)" , Hans.von.Storch@gkss.de Dear Mike, Hans et al, I told Hans I wouldn't email him whilst he was on holiday, but Mike's and the exchange has prompted me to share a few sentences I received in an email on Tuesday. Here it is, it relates to the paper in EOS and comes from someone within AGU. ------ I thought I would gag when I heard that Soon contacted AGU to question the nature of the review (to which your piece was subjected) and claimed that this was a clear effort to politicize the issue (he would never do that). Of course he stressed that he and his colleagues were only interested in the science and not the political aspects of the issue. ------ In CRU we have only issued a few press releases related to articles that were about to come out - related to extremes of daily rainfall over the UK/Iberia. We've normally waited for the press to contact us. They only do wrt Nature and Science articles - never for J. Climate, JGR, IJC and CR. The EOS article got little publicity yet Soon still implies that we are trying to politicize the issue. I've never experienced so many calls/emails about the Soon/Baliunas article back in March/April. So maybe here's a test - do you issue a press release when a paper comes out or are you just happy the article has finally made it into print ? I think all of us fall in the later category. CRU's press releases have generally fallen flat or been subsumed by world events. Cheers Phil 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------