From: Michael Mann To: Tim Osborn Subject: Re: attacks against Keith Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:45:16 -0400 Cc: "gschmidt@giss.nasa.gov" , Phil Jones 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 > >