From: "Michael E. Mann" <mann@multiproxy.evsc.virginia.edu>
To: k.briffa@uea.ac.uk, t.osborn@uea.ac.uk, p.jones@uea.ac.uk,  tcrowley@duke.edu, rbradley@geo.umass.edu, mhughes@ltrr.arizona.edu,  drdendro@ldeo.columbia.edu, rkerr@aaas.org, bhanson@aaas.org
Subject: Briffa & Osborn piece
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 12:39:38 -0500

   Keith and Tim,
   Sadly, your piece on the Esper et al paper is more flawed than even the paper itself.
   Ed, the AP release that appeared in the papers was even worse. Apparently you allowed
   yourself to