date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:10:18 -0500 from: "Michael E. Mann" subject: final for the night to: asocci@cox.net, Gabi Hegerl , Jonathan Overpeck , Keith Briffa , Malcolm Hughes , Mike MacCracken , Phil Jones , Ray Bradley , Ben Santer , Steve Schneider , "Lonnie G. Thompson" , Ellen Mosley-Thompson , Tim_Profeta@lieberman.senate.gov, tom crowley , Kevin Trenberth , Tim Osborn , Tom Wigley , apetsonk@environmentaldefense.org, "Jim Salinger" , Annie_Petsonk@environmentaldefense.org, rpomerance@aecs-inc.org, mann@virginia.edu Dear All, This is my final email for a while--hopefully this is the end of this. Attached is a revised and expanded statement of response to the paper, having seen more of the details now. please feel free to use it in any way that may be helpful. After having gone over their posted analysis and procedure, I've refined my comments further--some of my previous conclusions about what they have done were not correct. The main problem is a bit more subtle, probably having to do w/ how the Reconstructed Principal Components are scaled. My attached comments deal with both the scientific problems w/ what they have done, and the problems w/ the lack of any legitimate scientific peer review... The mainstream media doesn't seem to be biting at this thing, but you can be sure there will be an attempt to use this inside the beltway... cheers, mike ______________________________________________________________ Professor Michael E. Mann Department of Environmental Sciences, Clark Hall University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22903 _______________________________________________________________________ e-mail: mann@virginia.edu Phone: (434) 924-7770 FAX: (434) 982-2137 [1]http://www.evsc.virginia.edu/faculty/people/mann.shtml Attachment Converted: "c:\eudora\attach\EandEResponse-revised.doc"