From	ray bradley	Date	Sat, 23 Mar 2002 10:19:00 -0500
To	Edward R. Cook, Keith Briffa, Tim Osborn
Subject	Op-Ed
Ed: I just waded through all the correspondence with Mike re the Science paper and Keef's commentary. I wish to disassociate myself with Mike's comments, or at least the tone of them. I do not consider myself the final arbiter of what Science should publish, nor do I consider what you did to signify the end of civilization as we know it. Life goes on--now we have another working hypothesis to examine. Great...one of these days we'll really know what happened....until then, I find all these efforts to be really interesting. That's not to say I agree with everything you said or did, but then I don't suppose you are too enamoured of what I've done in the past either. C'est la vie. Ray Raymond S. Bradley Distinguished 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 Page: Paleoclimatology Book Web Site (1999): http://www.geo.umass.edu/climate/paleo/html