From	Michael E. Mann	Date	Tue, 6 Oct 1998 11:06:20 -0400 (EDT)
To	coleje@spot.colorado.edu, Ed Cook, Jonathan T. Overpeck, Keith Briffa, Brian Luckman, Phil Jones, rbradley@climate1.geo.umass.edu
Subject	Re: climate of the last millennia...
Dear all, I just wanted to thank Keith for his comments. They are right on target. There is indeed, as many of us are aware, at least one key player in the modeling community that has made overly dismissive statements about the value of proxy data as late, because of what might be argued as his/her own naive assessment/analysis of these data. This presents the danger of just the sort of backlash that Keith warns of, and makes all the more pressing the need for more of a community-wide strategizing on our part. I think the workshop in Jan that Peck is hosting will go far in this regard, and I personally am really looking forward to it! cheers, mike. _______________________________________________________________________ Michael E. Mann Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences Morrill Science Center University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 _______________________________________________________________________ e-mail: mann@snow.geo.umass.edu (normal) memann@titan.oit.umass.edu (attachments) Web: http://www.geo.umass.edu/climate/mike Phone: (413) 545-9573 FAX: (413) 545-1200