cc: "Phil Jones" <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>, "Joanna D. Haigh" <j.haigh@imperial.ac.uk>
date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:57:14 +0100
from: "Roger Coe" <rogercoe804@btinternet.com>
subject: solar climate forcing
to: <m.lockwood@rl.ac.uk>

   Mike,

   Thank you for the copy of your Royal Society paper. I have just returned from holiday to
   find that the comments I might have made

   have been put much more succinctly by David Whitehouse in the Sunday Telegraph and today by
   Joseph D'Aleo on the icecap.us website.

   In summary, the conclusions cannot be justified from a simple analysis over a short time
   frame which is dominated by the problem

   of the ACRIM gap, and almost seem to contradict your comments in the preceding two
   paragraphs which suggest that there is indeed a solar influence. The need now is to
   quantify this influence as Scafetta and West and others have attempted.

   It reads almost as if your paper has been hijacked by the Royal Society and others to
   answer a TV programme! I hope this is not the case.



   Roger Coe

   Bromsgrove, Worcs.