From	Phil Jones	Date	Thu Mar 19 12:39:26 2009
To	Michael E. Mann
CC	Gavin Schmidt
Subject	Re: FYI
Mike, I want to get the more extensive London paper in first. I hope my missive to the Chief Exec of the RMS does something next week. By the way the HC doesn't have a Director. John Mitchell is Head of Climate Science Chris Gordon is Deputy Director of the HC. It has never had a Director with that particular title. It is impossible for anyone to find this on their web site. Only if you were on the HC Scientific Review Group would you be aware. Cheers Phil At 12:24 19/03/2009, Michael Mann wrote: HI Phil, thanks, we've already seen numerous comments about this at RealClimate. Its a paper that is easily misunderstood and/or intentionally misrepresented by contrarians (or both). One possibility is that you might consider writing a guest article for RC placing this in proper perspective. What do you think? mike On Mar 19, 2009, at 6:52 AM, Phil Jones wrote: Gavin, Mike, See the link below! Don't alert anyone up to this for a while. See if they figure it out for themselves. I've sent this to the Chief Exec of the RMS, who said he was considering changing data policy with the RMS journals. He's away till next week. I just wanted him to see what a load of plonkers he's dealing with! I'm hoping someone will pick this up and put it somewhere more prominently. The responses are even worse than you get on CA. I've written up the London paper for the RMS journal Weather, but having trouble with their new editor. He's coming up with the same naive comments that these responders are. He can't understand that London has a UHI of X, but that X has got no bigger since 1900. I'm away all next week. Cheers Phil [1]http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/03/18/finally-an-honest-quantification-of-urban-warmi ng-by-a-major-climate-scientist/ "Phil Jones, the director of the Hadley Climate Center in the UK." -- Thomas C. Peterson, Ph.D. NOAA's National Climatic Data Center 151 Patton Avenue Asheville, NC 28801 Voice: +1-828-271-4287 Fax: +1-828-271-4876 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Michael E. Mann Associate Professor Director, Earth System Science Center (ESSC) Department of Meteorology Phone: (814) 863-4075 503 Walker Building FAX: (814) 865-3663 The Pennsylvania State University email: [2]mann@psu.edu University Park, PA 16802-5013 website: [3]http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~mann/Mann/index.html "Dire Predictions" book site: [4]http://www.essc.psu.edu/essc_web/news/DirePredictions/index.html 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://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/03/18/finally-an-honest-quantification-of-urban-warming-by-a-major-climate-scientist/ 2. mailto:mann@psu.edu 3. http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~mann/Mann/index.html 4. http://www.essc.psu.edu/essc_web/news/DirePredictions/index.html