From	Phil Jones	Date	Fri Sep 19 15:11:41 2008
To	Ben Santer
Subject	Re: Status of IJoC manuscript
Ben, Good news. Endnote types is a much better option than in the text - not as good as footnotes. Yes the paper you attached does look crap. I will read it though even if the journal is even worse. This paper has come out. The plot of London and Vienna temps, although an aside, is something I need to follow up more. London has a UHI, but it doesn't mean any more warming in the 20th century! Hope all is well with you. Cheers Phil PS Attached another paper - has some nice photos! At 17:12 18/09/2008, you wrote: Dear folks, I just wanted to give you a brief update on the status of our IJoC manuscript. I received the page proofs about three weeks ago. Unfortunately, IJoC did not allow us to employ footnotes. You may recall that we made liberal use of footnotes in order to present technical information that would have interfered with the "flow" of the main text. The IJoC copy editors simply folded all footnotes into the main text. This was done without any regard for context. It made the main text very difficult to read. After lengthy negotiations with IJoC editors, we decided on a compromise solution. While IJoC was unwilling to accept footnotes (for reasons that are still unclear to me), they did agree to accept endnotes. The footnotes have now been transferred to an Appendix 2 entitled "Technical Notes". While this is not an optimal solution, it's a heck of a lot better than IJoC's original "assimilate in main text" solution. Now that the footnote issue has been resolved, I'm hoping that online publication of our paper will happen within the next several weeks. I'll let you know as soon as I receive a publication date from IJoC. LLNL (and probably NOAA, too) will be working on press releases for the paper. I'll also be drafting a one-page, plain English "fact sheet", which will address why we initiated this study, what we learned, why I'll never do this again, etc. I'll circulate this fact sheet for your comments early next week. With best regards, Ben (P.S.: David Douglass and John Christy continue to publish crappy papers. For their latest science fiction, please see: [1]http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0809/0809.0581.pdf ) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Benjamin D. Santer Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory P.O. Box 808, Mail Stop L-103 Livermore, CA 94550, U.S.A. Tel: (925) 422-3840 FAX: (925) 422-7675 email: santer1@llnl.gov ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Phil Jones Climatic Research Unit Telephone +44 (0) 1603 592090 School of Environmental Sciences Fax +44 (0) 1603 507784 University of East Anglia Norwich Email p.jones@uea.ac.uk NR4 7TJ UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- References 1. http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0809/0809.0581.pdf