From: Keith Briffa <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>
To: Malcolm Hughes <mhughes@ltrr.arizona.edu>
Subject: Re: IN STRICTEST CONFIDENCE
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:28:22 +0100
Cc: t.m.melvin@uea.ac.uk

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Malcolm
honestly just a cross thread between Tom and I.  I had been asked by 
Darrell whether we should use the Sidorova chronology - because of 
hassle by you know who - so asked Tom a while ago to ask you. I did 
not see your answer - sorry if you cc'd me in as I have not been 
checking emails. I fully accept and would NEVER go behind your back 
to ask for the data. I understood that the chronology was published 
and so thought to compare our RCS version with it if we could produce 
it in time . We are being accused of not using that chronology in the 
Science paper- so then asked Anders for it. I am happy to send 
Darrell the single chronology if that is what Anders has sent. I am 
having to start thinking about the Yamal crap and then this Darrell 
stuff suddenly arises. I just wanted him to consider including the 
Polar Urals reconstruction and the Sidorova series in his analysis 
before publishing a correction in Science- apparently the selection 
criterion for inclusion of series was anything published north of 60 
degrees and longer than 1000 years. I could do without all this now - 
don't really understand what Climate Audit are getting so hysterical 
about but feel that I can not ignore it this time - but don't feel up 
to getting involved. I fully admit to being out of the loop as 
regards all this and having trouble getting back to it.

To restate - this was a confusion. I fully accept your point (as you 
know I would). Sorry if you thought I was doing anything without your 
knowledge - TO BE HONEST ALSO - I actually was not really  aware that 
the data you were producing and that used by Sidorova were one and 
the same. Best wishes hopefully all ok
I assume that we are allowed to use the chronolgy as published - are 
we? I have not contacted Sidorova. Can you cc answer to Tom as I have 
no email at present. (this coming from someone elses computer)
Keith


At 16:50 02/10/2009, you wrote:
>Dear Keith - I do hope your recovery continues apace, in spite of 
>the recent nonsense. I really have had no intention to bother you 
>with work stuff, and had  strongly encouraged Mike and Gavin to 
>contact Tim and/or Tom putting a response on RlCl. So, I'm really 
>reticent to raise something else, but must.
>What's going on? 21st September I got an email from Tom M that 
>contained the following para, among other more general discussion:
>"Keith has been complained at by Climate Audit for cherry picking 
>and not using your long Indigirka River data set. Not used because 
>we did not have the data. Please, could we have the data? We will 
>make proper aknowledgement/coauthorship if we use the data."
>I replied pretty much straight away thus: "Hi Tom - please find the 
>Esper article in question attached. The so-called Indigirka River 
>data set is not yet available because it has not been  published. I 
>am currently working on that with Russian colleagues, and was indeed 
>in Switzerland the week before last to work with one of them on 
>specifically this. All being well, there will be an accepted 
>manuscript before next summer, and at that point I will make the 
>data freely available. Once we get to that point, I'll let you know, 
>of course. Cheers, Malcolm" .
>So far, no direct response to this email from Tom.
>This morning I get an email from Anders Moberg, telling me that you 
>had asked him for the "Indigirka data". I've waited a couple of 
>hours before writing this email so as to try to be constructive. To 
>be sure that you understand what that dataset is and is not, 
>please  read the attached 2006 Moberg corrigendum.
>Once again, the actual data are unpublished, in spite of having been 
>discussed in the Russian literature by Siderova et al. A large 
>proportion of the raw data are not yet in the public domain, and so 
>you would not be able to critically evaluate the chronology as a 
>possible climate proxy. Why can that not be said - adequate metadata 
>not available, please see Moberg corrigendum? By the way, a 600-year 
>reconstruction is available (Hughes et al 1999, also attached), and 
>all those raw data are at the ITRDB.
>As you know, it is my intention to friendly, cooperative and open, 
>but I'm determined to get some scientific value from all the years 
>of work I've invested in the Yakutia work, and in cooperation with 
>Russia in general. Releasing these data now would be too much.
>Cheers, Malcolm
>
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