date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:45:05 +0100 from: "Folland, Chris" subject: RE: IPCC report to: Dear Phil This old and very dated chestnut. You were going to find out more if you could. You know my part of the story - it goes back to a Defra (then DOE) publication (which it would be nice to identify) and was requested in the Govt review by David Warrilow. )Likely based in part on Lambs CET work with some subjective alterations?). Any further insights would be helpful. Cheers Chris Prof. Chris Folland Head of Climate Variability and Forecasting Research Met Office Hadley Centre, Fitzroy Rd, Exeter, Devon EX1 3PB United Kingdom Email: chris.folland@metoffice.gov.uk Tel: +44 (0)1392 886646 Fax: (in UK) 0870 900 5050 (International) +44 (0)113 336 1072) <[1]http://www.metoffice.gov.uk> Fellow of the Met Office Hon. Professor of School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia ______________________________________________________________________________________ From: Bob Ward [mailto:Bob.Ward@rms.com] Sent: 18 October 2007 19:11 To: Folland, Chris Subject: IPCC report Dear Professor Folland Sir John Houghton suggested that I should contact you. I have been having an exchange of e-mail messages with Martin Durkin, who produced the programme 'The Great Global Warming Swindle' that was screened on Channel 4 in March. In particular, I have been challenging him about his use of a figure that he attributed to the IPCC First Assessment Report in 1990. It appears as Figure 7.1c on page 202 of the IPCC report, and shows global temperatures were higher during the Medieval Warm Period. I would be interested in finding out where this figure was obtained from - it closely resembles some of the figures published by Hubert Lamb, except that he was concerned with the temperature in Central England. Any light that you may be able to cast on this issue would be greatly appreciated. I should stress that I am primarily concerned about the extent to which Durkin has misrepresented the scientific evidence and the work of researchers - I have complained to Ofcom about the programme and I organised a joint letter to him from researchers in April asking him not to distribute it on DVD without correcting the substantial errors in it: [2]http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/apr/25/controversiesinscience.channel4 Yours sincerely, Bob Ward Director, Global Science Networks Risk Management Solutions Ltd Peninsular House 30 Monument Street London EC3R 8NB Tel. +44 (0) 20 7444 7741 Blackberry +44 (0) 7710 333687 [3]www.rms.com This message and any attachments contain information that may be RMS Inc. confidential and/or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive for the intended recipient), and have received this message in error, any use, disclosure or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by replying to the e-mail and permanently deleting the message from your computer and/or storage system.