From	Jonathan T. Overpeck	Date	Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:20:26 -0600
To	Keith Briffa, Tim Osborn, Ricardo Villalba, Eystein Jansen
CC	Valerie Masson-Delmotte
Subject	figure issues
Hi all - including Eystein, whom I haven't been able to talk with on these issues yet: 1) I'd like to get your status report on Fig. 6.12 - based on feedback from Henry Pollack, we will keep the borehole curves and corresponding instrumental data. I believe we are also going to add the new recon from Law Dome - Valerie was going to send. Do you have everything needed for this figure revision? 2) Since we met in Bergen, I have received feedback from many about our MWP box, and would like to float the idea that we delete the bottom (Osborn and Briffa) panel. I know this is shocking coming from me (I think O&B, 2006 is a paper of the year contender!), but I have become convinced that it will be too much of a lightening rod for what it gives us. We still show the data in the top panel, which conveys the same thing (although in a much less sophisticated way!), and we still back up with citations to O&B2006. BUT, we hopefully avoid a possible intense focus on methodological focus on the fig, and the criticism that it's LA work that hasn't been thoroughly vetted. This focus (i.e., from skeptics and those inclined to listen to them for political reasons) is stupid, but we want to keep readers focused on the science and not on the politically-generated flak. I think we can do this just as well without the O&B06 figure, assuming we still cite the findings of the O&B06 paper, but just don't show the figure. We also save space - not the reason for my suggestion, but a good thing given what Keith and Tim need to add in response to issue like divergence etc. Obviously, was the biggest fan and pusher for the figure to be included, and I'm sorry to be suggesting otherwise now. Does this make sense? Thanks, Peck -- Jonathan T. Overpeck Director, Institute for the Study of Planet Earth Professor, Department of Geosciences Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences Mail and Fedex Address: Institute for the Study of Planet Earth 715 N. Park Ave. 2nd Floor University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721 direct tel: +1 520 622-9065 fax: +1 520 792-8795 http://www.geo.arizona.edu/ http://www.ispe.arizona.edu/