date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:50:12 +0000 from: Tim Osborn subject: Re: O&B 2006 to: Gerd Bürger , Keith Briffa Hi Gerd, sorry I didn't have time to respond earlier, but I was busy with teaching etc. this term. Thanks for the direct communication -- it's much nicer than to suddenly receive a comment from the journal without advance warning! I have subsequently received a copy from Science, with a request to write a response, which we are still preparing (but will finish very soon). The issues of proxy selection and inclusion of the selection process in the significance testing stage are very relevant, though we will argue in our reply that the effect on our results is not as large as your comment suggest -- I'll be interested to hear what you think of our response when you see it. Best wishes Tim At 13:27 06/02/2007, Gerd Bürger wrote: >Hi Tim & Keith, > >I have just submitted the attached technical comment to Science. I >wonder if it is not too technical to be accepted. It will definitely >throw me into the camp of contrarians, a place where I had never dreamt to be. > >Anyway, I wanted to say thanks especially to Tim for his very >productive cooperation. And I hope you find some scientific value in it. > >Ciao, > Gerd > > Dr Timothy J Osborn, Academic Fellow Climatic Research Unit School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK e-mail: t.osborn@uea.ac.uk phone: +44 1603 592089 fax: +44 1603 507784 web: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~timo/ sunclock: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~timo/sunclock.htm