From	ray bradley	Date	Mon, 19 Apr 1999 10:41:31 -0400
To	Keith Briffa
Subject	CENSORED!!!!!
>Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 10:06:52 -0400 >To: juppenbrink@science-int.co.uk >From: "Raymond S. Bradley" >Subject: Climate warming prespctives article >Cc: mann@snow.geo.umass.edu, mhughes@ltrr.arizona.edu > >I have just returned from Finland and have now read all the correspondence regarding the Science perspectives article you asked Keith Briffa & Tim Osborn to write. I've sent Tim Osborn & Keith Briffa a few suggestions re their perspectives article. If you would like to see them, let me know. >I would like to diasassociate myself from Mike Mann's view that "xxxxxxxxxxx" and that they "xxxxxxxxxxxxx". I find this notion quite absurd. I have worked with the UEA group for 20+ years and have great respect for them and for their work. Of course, I don't agree with everything they write, and we often have long (but cordial) arguments about what they think versus my views, but that is life. Indeed, I know that they have broad disagreements among themselves, so to refer to them as "the UEA group", as though they all march in lock-step seems bizarre. >As for thinking that it is "Better that nothing appear, than something unnacceptable to us" .....as though we are the gatekeepers of all that is acceptable in the world of paleoclimatology seems amazingly arrogant. Science moves forward whether we agree with individiual articles or not.... > >Sincerely, > > Raymond S. Bradley Professor and Head of Department Department of Geosciences University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003-5820 Tel: 413-545-2120 Fax: 413-545-1200 Climate System Research Center: 413-545-0659 Climate System Research Center Web Site: