From: Stephen H Schneider <shs@stanford.edu>
To: Myles Allen <allen@atm.ox.ac.uk>, peter stott <peter.stott@metoffice.gov.uk>, "Philip D. Jones" <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>, Benjamin Santer <santer1@llnl.gov>, Tom Wigley <wigley@ucar.edu>, Thomas R Karl <Thomas.R.Karl@noaa.gov>, Gavin Schmidt <gschmidt@giss.nasa.gov>, James Hansen <jhansen@giss.nasa.gov>, trenbert <trenbert@ucar.edu>, Michael Mann <mann@meteo.psu.edu>, Michael Oppenheimer <omichael@Princeton.EDU>
Subject: Fwd: BBC U-turn on climate
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:32:11 -0700 (PDT)

   Hi all. Any of you want to explain decadal natural variability and signal to noise and
   sampling errors to this new "IPCC Lead Author" from the BBC?  As we enter an El Nino year
   and as soon, as the sunspots get over their temporary--presumed--vacation worth a few
   tenths of a Watt per meter squared reduced forcing, there will likely be another dramatic
   upward spike like 1992-2000. I heard someone--Mike Schlesinger maybe??--was willing to bet
   alot of money on it happening in next 5 years?? Meanwhile the past 10 years of global mean
   temperature trend stasis still saw what, 9 of the warmest in reconstructed 1000 year record
   and Greenland and the sea ice of the North in big retreat?? Some of you observational folks
   probably do need to straighten this out as my student suggests below. Such "fun", Cheers,
   Steve
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   ----- Forwarded Message -----
   From: "Narasimha D. Rao" <ndrao@stanford.edu>
   To: "Stephen H Schneider" <shs@stanford.edu>
   Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 10:25:53 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
   Subject: BBC U-turn on climate

   Steve,

   You may be aware of this already. Paul Hudson, BBCās reporter on climate change, on Friday
   wrote that thereās been no warming since 1998, and that pacific oscillations will force
   cooling for the next 20-30 years. It is not outrageously biased in presentation as are
   other skepticsā views.


   http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8299079.stm

   http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100013173/the-bbcs-amazing-u-turn-on-clima
   te-change/


   BBC has significant influence on public opinion outside the US.


   Do you think this merits an op-ed response in the BBC from a scientist?


   Narasimha


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