From	Ben Santer	Date	Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:16:33 -0800
To	Phil Jones
Subject	Re: Good news! Plus less good news
Dear Phil, Congratulations on the AGU Fellowship! That's great news. I'm really delighted. I hope that Mr. Mc "I'm not entirely there in the head" isn't there to spoil the occasion... With best regards, Ben P.Jones@uea.ac.uk wrote: > Ben, > Meant to add - hope you're better! You were missed at > IDAG. Meeting went well though. > > I heard during IDAG that I've been made an AGU Fellow. > Will likely have to go to Toronto to Spring AGU to collect it. > I hope I don't see a certain person there! > Have to get out of a keynote talk I'm due to give in > Finland the same day! > > Cheers > Phil > > > Ben, > I'm at an extremes meeting in Riederalp - near Brig. I'm too > old to go skiing. I'll go up the cable car to see the Aletsch Glacier at > some point - when the weather is good. Visibility is less than 200m at > the moment. > > It is good news that Rob can come. I'm still working on > Keith. It might be worth you sending him another email, > telling him what he'll be missing if he doesn't go. I think > Sarah will come, but I've not yet been in CRU when she has. > > With free wifi in my room, I've just seen that M+M have > submitted a paper to IJC on your H2 statistic - using more > years, up to 2007. They have also found your PCMDI data - > laughing at the directory name - FOIA? Also they make up > statements saying you've done this following Obama's > statement about openness in government! Anyway you'll likely > get this for review, or poor Francis will. Best if both > Francis and Myles did this. If I get an email from Glenn I'll > suggest this. > > Also I see Pielke Snr has submitted a comment on Sherwood's > work. He is a prat. He's just had a response to a comment > piece that David Parker, Tom Peterson and I wrote on a paper > they had in 2007. Pielke wouldn't understand independence if it > hit him in the face. Both papers in JGR online. Not worth you > reading them unless interested. > > Cheers > Phil > > > > > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------