From: Edward Cook <drdendro@xxxxxxxxx.xxx >
To: "Michael E. Mann" <mann@xxxxxxxxx.xxx >
Subject: Re: hockey stick
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 15:25:41 -0400
Cc: tom crowley <tom@xxxxxxxxx.xxx >, esper@xxxxxxxxx.xxx, Jonathan Overpeck <jto@u.arizona.edu >, Keith Briffa <k.briffa@xxxxxxxxx.xxx >, mhughes@xxxxxxxxx.xxx, rbradley@xxxxxxxxx.xxx, p.jones@xxxxxxxxx.xxx, srutherford@xxxxxxxxx.xxx

Hi Mike,

No problem. I am quite happy to work this stuff through in a careful way
and am happy to discuss it all with you. I certainly don't want the work to
be viewed as an attack on previous work such as yours. Unfortunately, this
global change stuff is so politicized by both sides of the issue that it is
difficult to do the science in a dispassionate environment. I ran into the
same problem in the acid rain/forest decline debate that raged in the
1980s. At one point, I was simultaneous accused of being a raving tree
hugger and in the pocket of the coal industry. I have always said that I
don't care what answer is found as long as it is the truth or at least
bloody close to it.

Cheers,

Ed

http://www.eastangliaemails.com/emails.php...

SEE?!! ED HAS CONFESSED HE "raged in the 1980s." HE ALSO ADMITS THAT HE IS A RAVING TREE HUGGER IN THE POCKET OF THE COAL INDUSTRY!!! AND HE ALSO SAYS HE DOESN'T CARE!!!