From	Michael E. Mann	Date	Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:45:16 -0400
To	Tim Osborn
CC	Gavin Schmidt, Phil Jones
Subject	Re: attacks against Keith
Thanks for the clarification Tim, doesn't change the fact the the attack was inappropriate and unfair of course, but perhaps not as despicable as at first might appear, M -- Michael E. Mann Professor Director, Earth System Science Center (ESSC) http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~mann/Mann/index.html http://www.essc.psu.edu/essc_web/news/DirePredictions/index.html On Sep 29, 2009, at 9:50 AM, Tim Osborn wrote: > At 14:30 29/09/2009, Gavin Schmidt wrote: >> The fact is that they launched an assault on Keith knowing full >> well he isn't in a position to respond. This is despicable. > > Gavin, > > be careful here, I think it more likely that McIntye only learned of > Keith's absence after he started posting about Yamal and the real > reason for the timing of all this is that we made the Yamal tree- > core measurements available about 2-3 weeks ago (in fact Keith had > thought they had been made available before he fell ill, and only > realised in early September that they weren't -- and asked for that > to be rectified). > > Cheers > > Tim > > > > > > Dr Timothy J Osborn, Academic Fellow > Climatic Research Unit > School of Environmental Sciences > University of East Anglia > Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK > > e-mail: t.osborn@uea.ac.uk > phone: +44 1603 592089 > fax: +44 1603 507784 > web: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~timo/ > sunclock: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~timo/sunclock.htm > >