From	Ben Santer	Date	Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:43:45 -0700
To	Peter Thorne, peter.thorne@noaa.gov, Leopold Haimberger, Karl E.Taylor, Tom Wigley, John Lanzante, Susan Solomon, Melissa Free, peter gleckler, Phil Jones, Thomas R Karl, Steve Klein, carl mears, Doug Nychka, Gavin Schmidt, Steven Sherwood, Frank Wentz
CC	Anne Stark, David Parker, David C. Bader, Bamzai, Anjuli
Subject	Next version of press release
Dear folks, Here is the next version of the press release for our IJoC paper. I received a number of comments from you (many thanks!), and have tried hard to incorporate them without increasing the length of the release. Peter Thorne suggested that it might be useful to delete the explicit reference to the UR/UAH group, and instead refer to the Douglass et al. IJoC paper in a footnote. After some internal debate, I have not done that. Anne Stark advised me that footnotes are not often used in press releases (they tend to get ignored by reporters). Furthermore, I couldn't see an easy way of getting rid of the "UR/UAH" acronym, yet still making a clear distinction between their results and our results, their test and our test, etc., etc. I've tried to capture the spirit if not the letter of your suggested edits. Unfortunately, I don't think we have the time to iterate for days on the press release - we really need to finalize this tomorrow. We will have a little more time to finalize the "fact sheet". So please let me know as soon as possible if there's anything you can't live with in the press release. One final point. Peter also asked whether it might be useful to include the telephone numbers of co-authors in the final paragraph of the press release. Anne and I would prefer not to do that. If you are agreeable to fielding press inquiries about the paper, please let me know, and send me a telephone number under which you can be reached in the next few days. We'll then compile a list (with contact information) of co-authors willing to discuss the paper with interested reporters. I hope to send you a revised version of the fact sheet later tomorrow. With best regards, Ben ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment Converted: "c:\eudora\attach\Santer_IJC_Sept_2008_v7.doc"