From	Stefan Rahmstorf	Date	Thu, 13 Jan 2005 19:15:25 +0100
To	Keith Briffa
CC	Jonathan T. Overpeck, Eystein Jansen
Subject	comments on Briffa, last millennium
Dear Keith, you've done a great job on the touchy subject of the last millennium, which is central to our whole chapter. My comments to that are threefold: (1) If you could shorten the text somewhat, it could become more powerful (2) Some small edits & comments are in the attached doc (3) I propose some improvements to the figures as follows. - Fig 1a the land temps seem to go off plot, temperature scale needs to be extended - we need a break between panels a and the rest, since it's a different time scale on the x axis - Fig 1c also has one curve going off the top - Panels 1b-d might run the time axis up to 2010 or so, else the important rise at the end is hidden in the tick-marks and less obvious than it should be - the legends need to say what the baseline period (zero line of y-axis) is (hard to find this in the axis label) - this baseline should be the same for all curves, i.e. 1961-1990. Fig 2d says 1901-1960 - it's not ideal to have a different one, as compared to Fig 1. Also, is it true? Surely the Storch curve is not shown relative to this baseline, it's way above it. Aligning it like this could lead to the dangerous misunderstanding that Storch suggests a much warmer medieval time compared to everyone else, which of course is not the case. I hope this helps. Cheers, Stefan -- Stefan Rahmstorf www.ozean-klima.de www.realclimate.org Attachment Converted: "c:\eudora\attach\Briffa_ed_sr .doc" Attachment Converted: "c:\eudora\attach\goosse_et_al_2005.pdf"