East Anglia Confirmed Emails from the Climate Research Unit - 1200426564.txt

From: Phil Jones <p.jones@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
To: mann@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject: Re: Edouard Bard
Date: Tue Jan 15 14:49:24 2008
Cc: gschmidt@xxxxxxxxx.xxx

Mike,
Good triumphs over bad - eventually!
It does take a long time though!
Maybe Ray P. wants to do something. He is more up to speed
on all this - and reads French!
Cheers
Phil
At 14:33 15/01/2008, Michael Mann wrote:

Phil,
thanks for sending on, I've sent to Ray P. The Passoti piece is remarkably bad for a
Science "news" piece, it would be worth discussing this w/ the editor, Donald Kennedy
who is quite reasonable, and probably a bit embarrassed by this.
My french isn't great, but I could see there was something also about the Moberg
reconstructions, Courtilot obviously trying to use that to arge that the recent warming
isn't anomalous (even though the Moberg recon actually supports that it is).
I'll need to read over all of this and try to digest when I have a chance later today.
Keep up the good fight, the attacks are getting more and more desparate as the
contrarians are increasingly losing the battle (both scientifically, and in the public
sphere). one thing I've learned is that the best way to deal w/ these attacks is just to
go on doing good science, something I learned from Ben...
talk to you later,
mike
Well, the Phil Jones wrote:

Gavin, Mike,

Some emails within this and an attachment. Send on to Ray Pierrehumbert.
Maybe you're aware but things in France are getting bad.
One thing might be a letter to Science re the diagram in an editorial in Science.
I did talk to the idiot who wrote this, but couldn't persuade him it was rubbish. This
isn't the worst - see this email below from Jean Jouzel and Edouard Bard. My French is
poor
at the best of times, but this all seems unfair pressure on Edouard.
See also this in French about me - lucky I can't follow it that well !
I know all this is a storm in a teacup - and I hope I'd show your resilience Mike if
this was directed at me. I'm just happy I'm in the UK, and our Royal Society knows
who and why it appoints its fellows!
In the Science piece, the two Courtillot papers are rejected. I have the journal
rejection emails - the other reviewer wasn't quite as strong as mine, but they were
awfiul.
Cheers
Phil
From: Jean Jouzel [1]<jean.jouzel@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: FYI: Daggers Are Drawn
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Dear Phil,
Yes the situation is very bad in and I was indeed going to write you to ask somewhat for
your help in getting some support to Edouard, which is really needed. Certainly one
thing you could do would be to write to the editor of Science at least pointing to the
fact that the figure is misleading using again the seasonal above 20

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