From	Michael E. Mann	Date	Mon, 13 Dec 2004 11:47:16 -0500
To	Keith Briffa
Subject	email #1: some background info first...
HI Keith, Thanks again for your phone call, and the (informal) opportunity to help out where I can. I'm perfectly happy in that role (as an informal contributor and a formal reviewer, for example), if you and Peck, for example, are both comfortable with that. First, "RealClimate" should be helpful. It deals w/ the skeptic claims, etc. but using the legitimate peer-reviewed research as a basis for the discussion. The "hockey stick" overview should be helpful: [1]http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=7 as well as itemized esponses to the various contrarian propaganda/myths: [2]http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=11 and the specific discrediting of the claims of McIntyre and McKitrick, based both on our response to their rejected Nature comment: [3]http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=8 and the discussion of the analysis in the Rutherford et al (2004) paper in press in Journal of Climate, that independently discredits them: [4]http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=10 In the following emails, I'll attach some other materials (submitted papers) that deal w/ the McIntyre and Mckitrick matter, and the von Storch matter, Please let me know if there is anything we discussed that I forget to provide you. Will also draft an email to the small group (you, me, Scott, Caspar, Gene) about the prospective additional RegEM/Mann et al method model analyses, cheers, Mike ______________________________________________________________ Professor Michael E. Mann Department of Environmental Sciences, Clark Hall University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22903 _______________________________________________________________________ e-mail: mann@virginia.edu Phone: (434) 924-7770 FAX: (434) 982-2137 [5]http://www.evsc.virginia.edu/faculty/people/mann.shtml References 1. http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=7 2. http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=11 3. http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=8 4. http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=10 5. http://www.evsc.virginia.edu/faculty/people/mann.shtml