cc: Caspar Ammann , Michael Mann , Keith Briffa , "Wahl, Eugene R" date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:17:59 -0400 from: drdendro@ldeo.columbia.edu subject: Re: question to: Malcolm Hughes Hi Malcolm, I'm on the case as it were. It is another "attack the hockey stick and throw out all prior tree ring work in the process" paper by the look of it. Pretty naive at that level. I am reviewing the paper submitted to IJC. Schofield is at Columbia in the Stats Dept, but I don't know him. I am discussing this with Manu Lall as well who is an expert on Hierarchical Bayes. So when I get back to Lamont on May 6 I will sort this matter out in better detail. Cheers, Ed Quoting Malcolm Hughes : > Guys - know anything about Matthew Schofield and Richard Barker's > "Deconstructing reconstruction" approach? They are making some pretty > sweeping claims. What I could find on the web is attached, plus they > seemed to have given a talk or poster at last year's EGU. Cheers, Malcolm > > -- > Malcolm K Hughes > Regents' Professor > Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research > The University of Arizona > 105 W Stadium > Tucson, AZ 85721 > USA > > tel: +1-520-621-6470 > fax: +1-520-621-8229 > > mhughes@ltrr.arizona.edu > > http://www.ltrr.arizona.edu/people/8 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.