date: Thu Feb 26 11:00:52 2004 from: Phil Jones subject: Your warmth to: P.Reid@bom.gov.au Phil, WRT your embargo, the link to the Guardian piece may be interesting. NOAA has also introduced an embargo as well. Tom Karl had a paper in Science in early Dec03 with Kevin Trenberth. He sent it up the chain of command beforehand and has he got no response he submitted it. The higher-ups hadn't read it. Now when he submits anything he has to get it signed off by the deputy head and the head of NOAA (the so-called Admiral). He was also told in December not to deal with the media when the paper came out ! So the press interviewed Kevin instead to get his view. For NOAA they had to talk to the deputy head who like the head is a political appointee. Tom Karl is the Director of NCDC ! Would the meddling past Director be Bill Kininmonth, by any chance ? He's been responding on several subjects on the main skeptic email list. Mike Manton told me he was a pain in the backside even when he was director. It seems to have been warm down your way. Oodnadatta with 9 nights above 30 C ! Paris has two nights in August with night mins above 25 C and 15,000 died. You've got the air conditioning, I hope ! I've met two different people outside CRU who've told me their granny's were doing well until the warmth in August. Both said they haven't fully recovered yet from the near 38C we had then for a few days. Cheers Phil From: "Laura Middleton" To: Subject: FW: another interesting article... Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 12:26:20 -0000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 Importance: Normal X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: 00000000C96BC7FE75169D4CB2737632D51E5609A4E22200 [1]http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,13026,1150831,00.html Careful with that planet, Mr President Diana Liverman spent years as a senior climate adviser in the US. Now back in the UK, she argues for American scientists to be freed from their fear of speaking out on global warming - before it's too late. 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------