And here is the GOP counterpoint Opinion: The RNC Is Committed to Earning the Support of AAPI Voters by JASON CHUNG I've been asked by a lot of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) from across the country how they can attend the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, OH. This tells me the Republican National Committee (RNC) has been successful in encouraging AAPIs to actively participate in the political and electoral process. The RNC is committed to working with different AAPI communities. Each ethnicity and demographic has their own culture and their own heritage and, as immigrants, have their own issues they value. The AAPI electorate is not monolithic. The RNC has built an institution where we understand and welcome these differences, and develop an engagement program to have our activists and supporters better communicate Republican principles to our disparate ethnicities, and even more importantly, listen to them. The RNC has also led the way with the hiring of a diverse workforce. Not including our field staffers, neighborhood team leaders, and volunteers in the states, we have AAPI staff working in areas as important as engineering, data, digital, press, research, and administration. Staffers of all backgrounds participate in our strategy sessions to ensure the issues of concern to AAPIs get the attention they deserve. The RNC has developed a robust AAPI grassroots engagement program. We are working with our 100+ AAPI elected officeholders and AAPI party officials at the local, state, and national levels to ensure more of our communities are a part of the political process. This is not just a California, New York, and Texas strategy; this is a 50-state and 6-territory strategy where every AAPI ethnicity has a seat at the table, and their voices are included in the discussion. RELATED: As Asian-American Electorate Grows, GOP Aims to Turn Local Wins National In the past three years we've effectively communicated with AAPI voters through developing native-language ads in ethnic community newspapers, targeting millennial AAPI voters via web ads and social media, and using Asian entertainment-streaming websites. RELATED: Courting the Youth Vote: How Both Parties Plan to Target Asian-American Millennials The RNC is continuing a multi-million dollar investment effort to compete for the AAPI vote. Our initiatives are more than paying for booths at cultural events, festivals, and advertising; we are out there engaging AAPI voters where they work, live, and play. These long-term investments are already making our party stronger. Under the leadership of Chairman Priebus, Republicans achieved 50 percent of the AAPI vote in the 2014 midterm elections. In 2010, the GOP share of the AAPI vote was 40 percent. We as a party have gained momentum in winning the AAPI vote and we expect to pick up steam as we head into Election Day. I was taught at an early age that actions speak louder than words. Politics is no different. I believe the Republican Party is an institution made for AAPI communities. In order to grow our party, our strategy is simple: we listen to AAPIs about what is important, and then build meaningful engagement initiatives without pandering. More than ever before, the Republican Party is dedicated to earning the support of AAPI voters. Jason Chung is the Director of APA Engagement for the Republican National Committee. From: Wei, Shu-Yen Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2016 8:40 AM To: Comm_D Subject: NBC AsAm Op-ed published Having them change "is" to "are" in the title Opinion: The DNC's Efforts to Engage AAPI Voters Is Succeeding by KOUSTUBH "K.J." BAGCHI My family played a big role in why I became a proud member of the Democratic Party. My parents came to this country because, like many immigrants, they sought better opportunities for themselves and their children. They taught me that it was important to know what was going on in the world by having us watch the evening news each night. As I began to take a specific interest in politics, my father drove me to county Democratic Party meetings in our hometown of Reno, Nevada. I still remember him wearing his oversized gray wool jacket and slippers you could only find sold in Kolkata, India. Going to these meetings, and discussing the issues later around the family dinner table started off as a hobby and passion that eventually led me the job I have today. As the Director of AAPI Engagement for the Democratic National Committee (DNC), I spend a lot of time in similar discussions, and in subsequent actions, about how our big-tent party can keep improving on its mission of inclusion and progress. I consistently see our issues framed through my parent's eyes. As a first-generation American, I am grateful that my parents chose to settle in this country. Their story is the basis for my belief in treating everyone with respect and dignity. This is why I get so upset when I hear Republican presidential candidates target undocumented families and when they promote outlawing birthright citizenship or banning and tracking all Muslims entering the United States. Democrats are fighting for comprehensive immigration reform and keeping immigrant families together under President Obama's Deferred Action programs for undocumented children and parents. My family has always respected the fact that Democrats have campaigned on increasing education access and lowering the costs of higher education. As professionals who have worked in the STEM field, they get frustrated whenever they see or hear Republican candidates deny climate change and refuse to do anything about it. Democrats are the ones pushing for investments in clean energy, calling for action to combat climate change and proposing solutions based on scientific facts. As I began to get involved in those early years, my parents got interested as well. Those early dinner table conversations were key. The DNC has invested in and built up a voter file over several election cycles that allows us to continually engage the AAPI community through similar conversations on the ground. The online tool also allows us to identify if voters speak other languages, so we can accommodate them. As a result, staffers refine and add to the information within the system year after year, so it stays current and robust. RELATED: Courting the Youth Vote: How Both Parties Plan to Target Asian-American Millennials For elections, our campaigns and state parties work with community groups to get out the vote. Our voter protection operation makes every effort to ensure access at the ballot box, because no one should have to deal with burdensome restrictions when exercising a fundamental right. This year, the DNC launched ProgressAAPI, a series of programs, trainings and conversations that build on the work that past AAPI Democrats have done, such as social media actions, webinars on the convention, connecting youth to campaign opportunities, and events to get our message out. We want to make sure our policies that benefit AAPI families are heard far and wide, and we will continue the Democratic tradition of meeting voters where they are, in person or otherwise. The policies and inclusion efforts of the Democratic Party are nothing new, but part of a long endeavor, the results of which are widely evident now.More than 50 percent of AAPI registered voters identify as Democrats, and President Obama won 73 percent of the AAPI vote in 2012. Twenty years ago, the trend was just the opposite, with 74 percent of AAPIs voting Republican. And we understand the need to be continually engaged, even at the highest levels. President Obama has made a record number of AAPI judicial appointments, tripling the number who sit on the federal bench from eight to 25. All but one of the 14 AAPI Members of Congress are Democrats, and we are working to add to their ranks this election year. RELATED: Is the GOP Losing the Asian-American Vote? The core principle that drives the DNC today is the same one that drew me and my parents in when I was a kid: that as Americans, we are greater together than we are on our own. Everyone deserves a fair shot to succeed, not just those already at the top. While we reflect on the advances AAPIs have made in our nation's history, we continue to push forward and demand progress with a Democratic Party that is part of the greater cause. Koustubh "K.J." Bagchi is the Director of AAPI and Small Business Engagement at the Democratic National Committee.


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Hi Eugene - this is good news... I hope. Please contact Steve and see if we will have "in press" status before the end of the month. He knows the drill, but also the downside of not being precise. Let me, Eystein and Keith know as soon as you know. Bit nuts right now, really appreciate your help. thanks, peck >Hi Peck: > >Well, as I have understood it in our communications with Steve, >final acceptance is equivalent to being in press for Climatic Change >because it is a "journal of record". However, this would need to be >confirmed to be quite sure. > >If that is the case, then in press is still possible by the end of >the month. I think. > >Which would be best at this point, for me to write and ask Steve >this, or would it be better for you to ask? I'm happy to do so, I >just want to act in the most time-effective and appropriate way. > >I apologize for the fact that it is coming right down to the wire. >The status right now is that I am waiting for final analytical >results from Caspar re: Pearson's r and CE results on all the >scenarios we have done. These results will go in an appendix table >and I have to write a brief text to go with them for >contextualization purposes--I already have in mind what I want to >say. The entire rest of the document is essentially done. > >Steve turned around the change from "in review" to "provisionally >accepted" within days last December after receiving back the final >independent re-review (it had been due a month earlier), so I can >imagine that he could potentially turn around the change from >"provisional acceptance" to "full acceptance" similarly quickly. > > >Please advise about who is best to contact Steve--and if me I will >get on it today. > > >Peace, Gene >Dr. Eugene R. Wahl >Asst. Professor of Environmental Studies >Alfred University > >________________________________ > >From: Jonathan Overpeck >Sent: Fri 2/10/2006 12:39 PM >To: Wahl, Eugene R >Cc: Eystein Jansen; Keith Briffa; t.osborn@uea.ac.uk >Subject: RE: Wahl-Ammann paper and UAZ position > > > >Hi Gene - First the IPCC, then I'll send another email wrt UA Geography > >Based on your update (which is much appreciated), I'm not sure we'll >be able to cite either in the SOD due at the end of this month >(sections will have to be done this week, or earliest next week to >meet this deadline). The rule is that we can't cite any papers not in >press by end of Feb. > > From what you are saying, there isn't much chance for in press by the >end of the month? If this is not true, please let me, Keith, Tim and >Eystein know, and make sure you send the in press doc as soon as it >is officially in press (as in you have written confirmation). We have >to be careful on these issues. > >Thanks again, Peck > >>Hi Peck: >> >>Two quick things... >> >>1) Regarding the Wahl-Ammann (WA) Climatic Change paper...Caspar >>and I are in the very final stages of completing the requirements >>Steve Schneider set for bringing this paper into full (vs. >>provisional) acceptance. We have an internal goal of a week from >>now for resubmission. >> >>We have had an equally pressing deadline with Science re: our >>comment on the vonStorch et al. 2004 criticism of MBH [that was >>based on an improper (and undisclosed) detrending step], which has >>taken some extra work to be sure we have our mathematics exactly >>correct. We have been multitracking on both this and WA, and so far >>have been quite close to meeting our internal time goals. I feel the >>week time frame will be fairly accurate. >> >> >>2) I am aware of a position now open at UAZ in the Geography and >>Regional Development Dept. I think I make a good fit with the >>position profile--actually quite good--however, I have met >>roadblocks in geography departments before because my degree is not >>in geography. Geographers seem to have particular sensitivities to >>their discipline being "watered down". Also, the geography depts at >>some research grade institutions (UMN for example) require pretty > >heavy teaching loads, which makes a nice challenge to keep up with >>research--don't I know!! And finally, the position is subject to >>budgetary approval, which makes me wonder if there are significant, >>deeper budgetary issues that it would be good to know about. >> >>Do you have any read on this position and the budget issues? I have >>a lot of contacts there in climatology/earth system-related >>areas--including you, Malcolm Hughes, Tom Swetnam, Owen Davis, and >>also Julio Betancourt of the USGS--which is something that would be >>considered a strength for this position. From my perspective, the >>fit would be very good, but I don't want to invest effort in the >>application process if it is clear that not being a geography PhD is >>a stopper, or if there is some other significant red flag I should >>know about. Any thoughts you might have will be welcome. >> >>I'll be contacting Malcolm for his read also, and then talk to the >>search chair. >> >> >>Peace, Gene >>Dr. Eugene R. Wahl >>Asst. Professor of Environmental Studies >>Alfred University >> >>607-871-2604 >>1 Saxon Drive >>Alfred, NY 14802 >> > > >-- >Jonathan T. Overpeck >Director, Institute for the Study of Planet Earth >Professor, Department of Geosciences >Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences > >Mail and Fedex Address: > >Institute for the Study of Planet Earth >715 N. Park Ave. 2nd Floor >University of Arizona >Tucson, AZ 85721 >direct tel: +1 520 622-9065 >fax: +1 520 792-8795 > > -- Jonathan T. Overpeck Director, Institute for the Study of Planet Earth Professor, Department of Geosciences Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences Mail and Fedex Address: Institute for the Study of Planet Earth 715 N. Park Ave. 2nd Floor University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721 direct tel: +1 520 622-9065 fax: +1 520 792-8795


Hi Prof. Zhang: thanks for your email and good to hear about your book. I will send the reference file to the LAs for them to incorporate as appropriate. You will also be editing the ZOD when it's complete, or of specific sections before then if you ask the appropriate leader of a section of interest (see previous listserv email with this list in case you don't remember from Italy). Regarding 6.5.9, I will cc this to Dan and Ramesh so you can coordinate with them directly. This is the process we have adopted for all subsections so we don't waste time with the CLA's having to relay messages. Go direct... I will also CC to Jean-Claude and Keith, so they make sure they have checked your input. Many thanks, Peck Å@Dear Peck: ... As regards Section 6.5.9 I shall do my utmost to help Den and Ramesh. But the assistance is to come only after I have read through their draft . Only in that way can I form an ideal "it must be relevant to policy makers" . I have been accustomed to write about scientific facts. Now I am confronted with a new problem how to serve the purpose of another style. Otherwise my suggestions would be of no use. I had sent paragraphs to Jean-Claunde for Section 6.2.2 and to Keith Briffa for section 6.3.2.1. last Nav.. With best wishes, -- Jonathan T. Overpeck Director, Institute for the Study of Planet Earth Professor, Department of Geosciences Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences Mail and Fedex Address: Institute for the Study of Planet Earth 715 N. Park Ave. 2nd Floor University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721 direct tel: +1 520 622-9065 fax: +1 520 792-8795


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WEATHER: 60F, Cloudy POTUS and the Administration Obama laments 'corrosive attitude' in U.S. politics POLITICO // NICK GASS President Barack Obama on Wednesday delivered a deeply emotional and at times personal plea to the people of Flint, Michigan, to find hope in their future and not get lost in anger over the water supply crisis that has poisoned many of their children with lead. In a speech that veered off script and went much longer than planned, the outgoing president also railed against Republicans not willing to invest in communities that have been left to crumble away. "It's not enough just to fix the water. We've got to fix the culture of neglect," Obama said, remarking that it has "degraded too many schools and too many roads and hurt too many futures." The speech, which came after the president spent much of the day visiting with members of the mostly African-American city of Flint, tapped into Obama's background as a community organizer and served as a potential preview of where the president might focus his efforts after leaving the White House. Obama jabs at Trump on immigration THE HILL // JORDAN FABIAN President Obama on Wednesday took a jab at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump over his harsh rhetoric about immigrants. Speaking at an event honoring Asian-American and Pacific Islander students and leaders, Obama called on them to vote to push back against a "rising tide of bigotry" against immigrants. "If you doubt what's at stake, you obviously haven't been reading the papers," Obama said at the Asian Pacific American Institute of Congressional Studies gala in Washington. The president said if Asian-Americans exercise their political power, they can help the country "move beyond today's anti-immigrant sentiment" just like past generations did. "We've got to push back against anti-immigrant sentiment in all of its forms," he said. "Especially by those who are trying to stoke it just to seek political gain and just to try to get headlines." The president's line about headline seekers, a clear shot at Trump, drew a raucous ovation from the crowd gathered at the Washington Hilton. Obama in Flint: water crisis is a 'tragedy that never should have happened' THE GUARDIAN // RYAN FELTON The Flint water crisis was a "tragedy that never should have happened" in the US, Barack Obama said Wednesday during his first visit to the city since evidence of lead contamination emerged last fall, while residents jeered Michigan's governor in his first public remarks before the community. "Flint's recovery is everybody's responsibility," the president told a crowd of 1,000 gathered inside a high school gymnasium. "And I will make sure that responsibility is met." The president focused his remarks on what he called a "corrosive" mentality in politics that "contributed to this crisis". "Now, I do not believe that anybody consciously wanted to hurt the people," he said. "And this is not the place to sort out every screwup ... but I do think there's a larger issue. Obama Blames Antipathy Toward Government for Flint Water Crisis BLOOMBERG // ANGELA GREILING KEANE AND MIKE DORNING Widespread water contamination in Flint, Michigan, was a "man-made disaster" brought about in part by a political preference for small government, President Barack Obama in a visit on Wednesday to the city. In a speech to about 1,000 residents, Obama urged them to resist assumptions that their children have been permanently harmed by consuming water with lead, and blamed "a mindset that believes that less government is the highest good, no matter what." He didn't mention Michigan's Republican governor, Rick Snyder, who addressed the audience earlier and professes the virtues of smaller government. Snyder has borne much of the blame for the contamination. "I do not believe that anybody consciously wanted to hurt the people in Flint, and this is not the place to sort every screw-up that resulted in contaminated water," Obama said. "This myth that government is always the enemy -- that forgets that our government is us, that it's an extension of us, ourselves. That attitude is as corrosive to democracy as the stuff that resulted in lead in your water." Democrats Dems: Trump wins us the Senate and Garland POLITICO // EDWARD ISAAC DOVERE Donald Trump threw a big party Tuesday night. So did every Democrat running for Senate. The party's Senate candidates are brimming with excitement about spending the next six months hitting their opponents with Trump - and being able to tie their case together by saying that Republicans' opposition to President Barack Obama's Supreme Court pick means they want a President Trump to fill the vacancy. "Here's where we are: If I were Trump or I were [Mitch] McConnell or I were Paul Ryan, the first thing I'd say is, 'Listen, let's take one issue off the table quickly: Let's have hearings on Garland. Let's have a vote and put him on the court,'" Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said in an interview Wednesday. He added, "Every Republican candidate will now have to answer for every racist and every anti-woman and every anti-immigrant statement. There are so many other issues than Trump, but Trump is the No. 1 issue." Democrats in frenzy to take advantage of Trump's Republican ascension WASHINGTON POST // PAUL KANE AND MIKE DEBONIS Congressional Democrats set out on a mission Wednesday to tie Donald Trump to every possible Republican running in competitive down-ballot races, following the real estate mogul's elevation to the GOP's presumptive presidential nominee. In memos, in news releases and across social media, Democrats tried to take advantage of Trump's unchallenged hold on the presidential nomination by linking Republican incumbents to his controversial statements and proposals on the campaign trail. Democrats believe Trump's triumph will allow them to make electoral inroads that could flip the Senate to their control and provide major gains in the House. "The bottom line is, the battlefield is going to shift in our favor," Kelly Ward, executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said Wednesday. Her committee issued a memo to the Colorado news media highlighting Trump's positions and how they will play in the highly competitive race involving Rep. Mike Coffman (R), who represents Denver's eastern suburbs. The memo was headlined "Coffman and Trump: Welcome to the Trump ticket." Democrats tie Trump to vulnerable GOP Senate candidates CNN // TED BARRETT Democrats got the Republican presidential nominee they hoped for this week as they work to take back control of the Senate. As soon as Donald Trump gained the presumptive nominee title -- following his Indiana primary win Tuesday -- Democrats swiftly moved to tie the GOP standard-bearer to vulnerable Republican Senate candidates. Many had kept a distance from the billionaire businessman even as they acknowledged they would eventually support whoever wins the GOP nomination. "This is no longer a drill," said a series of press releases from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in Washington aimed at eight Republican senate candidates that argued GOP inaction on Judge Merrick Garland's nomination to the Supreme Court meant the unpredictable Trump could be the one to fill that vacancy. One of those targeted was Sen. Kelly Ayotte New Hampshire who is in a tight re-election battle against the Democratic governor of that swing state, Maggie Hassan. Republicans Hill GOP braces for Trump POLITICO // JAKE SHERMAN AND RACHEL BADE Many of them are still in shock, and some of the chattiest of them won't answer their telephones. But slowly, Hill Republicans are coming to grips with a Donald Trump-driven Republican Party, and they are already strategizing how to navigate it. There have been informal conversations between figures in Trump's universe and top House Republicans, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the talks. 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Trump now has "the opportunity and the obligation to unite our party around our goals," McConnell concluded. George W. and George H. W. Bush to skip convention THE HILL // BEN KAMISAR Both Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush will not attend this summer's Republican convention, spokesmen confirmed to The Hill. The younger George Bush's spokesman, Freddy Ford, told The Hill in an email that the most recent Republican president "does not intend to attend" the convention in Cleveland. Ford also told The Associated Press that Bush does "not plan to participate in or comment on" the presidential race. George H.W. Bush's spokesman confirmed that the former president would not be attending either, citing his age. Neither Bush attended the 2012 Republican convention. Many speculated the younger Bush chose not to appear at that convention to avoid links with nominee Mitt Romney, as Bush's favorability rating had not yet recovered from his time in office. But now, Bush is looked upon more fondly by Americans, topping President Obama's favorability rating in 2015. Priebus: I think Trump knows 'this is a different ball game now' THE HILL // REBECCA SAVRANSKY Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said Wednesday that he thinks presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump knows things will change heading into the general election. "I get the sense that he understands that this is a different ball game now," Priebus said on Fox News on Wednesday, noting that he's spoken to Trump a couple of times since he easily won the Indiana primary and Priebus declared him the presumptive nominee. Ted Cruz and John Kasich both suspended their campaigns in light of the results. "This is not primary season. This is not pointing fingers at each other. This is about winning the White House, about our country, about Hillary Clinton, and I think he gets that," Priebus said. Priebus admitted that this was a contentious primary but said Trump will now have the opportunity to "be presidential" and to talk to the American people about his ideas. "It was 17 candidates. Feelings are still very raw," Priebus said. "I'm not pretending that this isn't going to take a while. We had campaigns that were serious operations, that were very deep and a lot of money was spent." But Priebus said the Republican candidates now won't be focusing on one another but rather on the Democratic opponent. Nikki Haley signals support for Trump POLITICO // DANIEL STRAUSS South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley on Wednesday tried to dispel any speculation that she would be Donald Trump's running mate, but she also signaled she would support him in the general election. "I have great respect for the will of the people, and as I have always said, I will support the Republican nominee for president," Haley said Wednesday, according to the Charleston Post and Courier. "To the members of the press who are asking, while I am flattered to be mentioned and proud of what that says about the great things going on in South Carolina, my plate is full and I am not interested in serving as vice president." Haley's comments came a day after Sen. Ted Cruz dropped out of the GOP primary for president and the same day that Ohio Gov. John Kasich announced that he was ending his campaign, leaving front-runner Trump on a certain course for the Republican nomination. Haley has often been mentioned as a vice presidential prospect. She previously supported Sen. Marco Rubio and then Cruz after Rubio dropped out of the primary. Vulnerable GOP senators duck and cover from Trump POLITICO // JOHN BRESNAHAN At 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Sen. Rob Portman - facing a tough reelection battle against a popular former Democratic governor - strongly reaffirmed his support for John Kasich as the GOP presidential nominee. Twenty minutes later, news broke that Kasich was out of the race. Kasich's decision was just a formality, but it left businessman and reality TV star Donald Trump without any opponent and cemented his hold on the GOP presidential nomination. For Portman and other Senate Republicans up for reelection in 2016, the clock has run out. There's no place left to hide on Trump. Like it or not, the next five months will mean a steady diet of Trump, Trump and more Trump. With 24 GOP-held Senate seats up for grabs in November - including in swing states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Hampshire - Trump is a wild card that Republicans have tried to avoid dealing with for months. They're still ducking the question, but they can't avoid the reality for long. These GOP senators will head into the general election with Trump on the top ticket, and Democrats using every chance they can to tie them to him. 2016 Democrats How the Rest of the Democratic Delegate Race Could Unfold THE NEW YORK TIMES // GREGOR AISCH, JOSH KATZ and K.K. REBECCA LAI Democratic delegates are awarded proportionally, and in states that have voted so far, Hillary Clinton has won more than half of the vote. The absence of winner-take-all states on the Democratic side makes it very hard for Bernie Sanders to close the delegate gap. If Mrs. Clinton maintains her current level of support in the remaining races, she will earn a majority of the pledged delegates by June 7. To have a shot at overtaking Mrs. Clinton in pledged delegates, Mr. Sanders would need a series of landslide victories in the few remaining contests, increasing his vote share to about 70 percent, on average. Mr. Sanders is also significantly trailing Mrs. Clinton in superdelegates, the 714 Democratic Party officials whose support counts toward the nomination. Superdelegates are free to switch candidates at any time before the convention in July; in past elections, they have supported the candidate who has received the most pledged delegates. If all superdelegates vote for the candidate with the most pledged delegates, Mrs. Clinton will get to 2,383 delgates. Hillary Clinton Is Taking Fire From Two Rivals THE WALL STREET JOURNAL // LAURA MECKLER AND COLLEEN MCCAIN NELSON Hillary Clinton is now fighting a two-front war for the presidency, facing an emboldened, combative Donald Trump while fending off Bernie Sanders, who promises to take his campaign all the way to the Democratic National Convention in July. Mr. Trump, by contrast, has cleared the Republican field and can direct his firepower at Mrs. Clinton alone. He signaled Wednesday that he would pick up Mr. Sanders's line of attack against the Democratic front-runner. "Bernie actually said she's unqualified because she's got bad judgment, and it's true," Mr. Trump told Time magazine. Mrs. Clinton is also attacking Mr. Trump on a daily basis, and Wednesday she told CNN the U.S. can't afford to take a risk on a "blustering, bullying guy." "He is a loose cannon, and loose cannons tend to misfire," she added. Clinton: America can't take a chance on 'loose cannon' Trump CNN // TOM TOBIANCO Hillary Clinton said Wednesday she is certain that Americans won't take a chance with Donald Trump in November because he is a "loose cannon." "I don't think we can take a risk on a loose cannon like Donald Trump running our country," she told CNN's Anderson Cooper in an exclusive interview. "I do think he is a loose cannon, and loose cannons tend to misfire." In the interview, which aired one day after Trump became the Republican Party's presumptive nominee, Clinton also weighed in on the ongoing Democratic primary and comments she made about the coal industry in March, when she said "we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business." Clinton: GOP is now the party of Trump THE HILL // CAITLIN YILEK Hillary Clinton continued a series of video attacks against Donald Trump on Wednesday as the two candidates look toward the general election. The new video on the Democratic front-runner's Twitter account explains what the "party of Trump" stands for. The minute-and-a-half video shows clips of the presumptive Republican nominee's comments on Muslims, the Islamic State and abortion. Many Democrats hope that Trump working as the standard-bearer for the GOP will bode well for their chances of regaining the majority in Congress. Clinton camp: 'Unfathomable' that hacker breached email server THE HILL // EVELYN RUPERT Hillary Clinton's team quickly shot down a claim from a Romanian hacker that he had breached her private email server while she was secretary of State. "There is absolutely no basis to believe the claims made by this criminal from his prison cell. In addition to the fact he offers no proof to support his claims, his descriptions of Secretary Clinton's server are inaccurate. It is unfathomable that he would have gained access to her emails and not leaked them the way he did to his other victims," the Clinton camp wrote in a statement. Romanian hacker Marcel Lehel Lazar, known as "Guccifer," told several news outlets that he had easily hacked into her email server on more than one occasion. His hack into the email account of a close Clinton ally first brought her private email to light. Clinton has claimed throughout the investigations into her use of a private server that it was never infiltrated by foreign hackers as critics accuse her of putting confidential materials at risk. Lazar was recently extradited to the United States and is currently in prison in Alexandria, Va., facing other cybercrime charges. Hacker 'Guccifer': I Got Inside Hillary Clinton's Server NBC NEWS // CYNTHIA MCFADDEN, TIM UEHLINGER and TRACY CONNOR The Romanian hacker who first exposed Hillary Clinton's private email address is making a bombshell new claim -- that he also gained access to the former Secretary of State's "completely unsecured" server. "It was like an open orchid on the Internet," Marcel Lehel Lazar, who uses the devilish handle Guccifer, told NBC News in an exclusive interview from a prison in Bucharest. "There were hundreds of folders." Lazar was extradited last month from Romania to the United States to face charges he hacked political elites, including Gen. Colin Powell, a member of the Bush family, and former Clinton advisor Sidney Blumenthal. Bernie Sanders fans may not love Hillary Clinton. But they won't vote for Donald Trump. VOX // JEFF STEIN Democrats hoping to bring the party together after a bitter and contentious primary between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders may have found their answer: Donald Trump. Trump has become the presumptive Republican nominee after rivals John Kasich and Ted Cruz suspended their presidential campaigns. From the perspective of Democratic Party unity, Trump's march to the nomination is great news: Sanders's supporters have made a lot of noise about going "Bernie or bust," but a poll out from CNN on Wednesday finds they prefer Clinton to Trump by an 86-to-10 margin. That's about the same ratio of Clinton supporters who voted for John McCain over Barack Obama in 2008, according to Emory political scientist Alan Abramowitz. And it's still early: As we move to the general election, Abramowitz says, Democrats are even more likely to swing behind their nominee. Sanders won't stop amid worries he's hurting Clinton THE BOSTON GLOBE // ANNIE LINSKEY Bernie Sanders made one thing very clear Wednesday: He's staying in the Democratic race, even if it bloodies the party's frontrunner. While crisscrossing Kentucky on a rainy spring day, he took a verbal shot at Hillary Clinton as he visited a new campaign office in Bowling Green, then greeted voters at a stop in Elizabethtown and held a rally in Lexington. And just in case anyone thought he would tone it down in the name of Democratic unity, his nine-car motorcade even made a detour back into Indiana - where he inflicted a fresh wound on Clinton with his surprise win in that state's primary Tuesday - to buy a new bullhorn. Sanders stands virtually no chance of capturing the nomination because Clinton's lead in delegates is too great. But the Vermont senator continues to hammer Clinton, and over the next two weeks he stands a good chance of winning three more states, West Virginia, Oregon, and Kentucky, which will put him in position to drag out the primary contest until the last states vote June 7. That stubbornness wins him love from supporters, but it's also a gift to the presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, who sewed up the nomination with a knockout win in Indiana and can count on a month-long head start for the general election. Sanders can't win with pledged delegates, but aides hope he can block Clinton CNN // TOM LOBIANCO It is mathematically impossible for Bernie Sanders to win enough delegates in the remaining Democratic contests to secure the nomination, but his aides see a path through a convention battle in Philadelphia that would target the party's superdelegates. The Democratic nominee must win 2,383 delegates to secure the nomination, but with only 933 delegates up for grabs in the remaining contests, it is impossible for Sanders to get there just by winning contests against front-runner Hillary Clinton. The Vermont senator has racked up 1,444 delegates, according to the latest CNN delegate tally, but would need to win more than 100% of the remaining delegates. Asked about this hurdle Wednesday, Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver dismissed it. "The truth is, no one is going to the convention with the requisite number of pledged delegates to win. The superdelegates are going to decide this race," Weaver said on CNN's "New Day." 2016 Republicans With Donald Trump in Charge, Republicans Have a Day of Reckoning NEW YORK TIMES // PATRICK HEALY, JONATHAN MARTIN, AND MAGGIE HABERMAN Republican elected officials, donors and strategists grappled uncomfortably on Wednesday with the inevitability of Donald J. Trump as their presidential nominee, an unexpectedly sudden denouement that left many in a state of political paralysis and others vowing to oppose the party's new standard-bearer. While some called for unity, many Republican leaders refrained from falling in line behind Mr. Trump, with dozens avoiding inquiries about where they stood or saying they wanted Mr. Trump to detail his policies or tone down his language first. Others tied themselves in knots as they praised and criticized Mr. Trump in a single breath, or suggested that they could abide Mr. Trump but loathed his agenda. Donald Trump takes the reins of a divided Republican Party WASHINGTON POST // PHILIP RUCKER, ROBERT COSTA, AND JOSE A. DEL REAL Donald Trump assumed control of the Republican Party on Wednesday as its presumptive presidential nominee after Ohio Gov. John Kasich exited the race, moving swiftly to consider vice-presidential prospects and plan for what is expected to be a costly and vicious six-month battle for the White House against Democrat Hillary Clinton. Trump, who has proudly touted how he has self-funded his campaign, said he would begin actively seeking donations for his campaign and raise money for the national party, part of the arduous task of coalescing a party deeply divided over his toxic brand of politics. Party leaders are scrambling to stave off a parade of prominent Republicans endorsing Clinton, but already there were notable defections. The two living Republican past presidents, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, have no plans to endorse Trump, according to their spokesmen. Trump's improbable coup leaves Republican Party in an identity crisis WASHINGTON POST // KAREN TUMULTY AND ROBERT COSTA Donald Trump has demolished just about every pillar of Republican philosophy, leaving the party to grapple with an identity crisis deeper than anything it has seen in half a century. The GOP has chosen as its 2016 standard-bearer a candidate who has flouted a litany of its once-sacred conservative principles. Trump is disdainful of free-trade agreements, leery of foreign intervention, less than strident on social issues and a champion of protecting entitlements. Trump has also shattered Republican efforts to appeal to minorities and women by taking extreme positions on building a wall along the Southern border and barring Muslims from entering the country - and offending women with a series of insulting comments. Donald Trump Won't Self-Fund General-Election Campaign THE WALL STREET JOURNAL // MONICA LANGLEY AND REBECCA BALLHAUS Donald Trump won't self-fund his general-election campaign, and will instead create a "world-class finance organization," the presumptive Republican nominee said in an interview on Wednesday. For a campaign expected to cost more than $1 billion, "I'll be putting up money, but won't be completely self-funding, as I did during the primaries," Mr. Trump said on Wednesday. The New York businessman, who did receive some mostly small unsolicited donations, lent his campaign $36 million of the $47 million he spent through March. That plan represents a shift for Mr. Trump, who has for months portrayed his Republican opponents as "puppets" for relying on super PACs and taking contributions from wealthy donors that he said came with strings attached. Trump: I want to raise $1B for the GOP THE HILL // MARK HENSCH Donald Trump on Wednesday said that he wants to raise $1 billion or more for the GOP before the general presidential election. "We're going to try to raise over $1 billion," he told host Lester Holt on "NBC Nightly News." "I hear the Democrats may try to raise up to $2 billion. "I'm not even sure that's necessary," Trump added of his estimate. "I have a big voice. I go onto shows like yours and speak the truth and people seem to go along with it." Trump said that he relishes battling Hillary Clinton after eliminating the Republican presidential field and becoming the party's presumptive nominee. "Hillary will be a lot easier to beat than many of the governors and senators and others I have beat," he said. "Bernie Sanders said she is not qualified to be president because she has bad judgment," Trump added. "I agree with that. How Donald Trump Becomes the GOP Nominee: The Path to 1,237 Delegates ABC NEWS // LAUREN PEARLE AND RYAN STRUYK While the Republican field has now been cleared for Donald Trump, the road ahead is still messy for the front-runner to become the official nominee at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, in July. Currently, Trump has 1,012 bound delegates, plus an additional 43 unbound delegates who are free agents -- though they have told ABC News they support Trump. Most likely, Trump will hit and far surpass the needed 1,237 in total delegates on June 7, when delegate-rich states like New Jersey and California cast their ballots. He is predicted to take most of the 228 delegates up for grabs on that day. Before June 7, though it is mathematically impossible for Trump to clinch the nomination with only bound delegates, he could still hit the winning delegate number with unbound (free agent) delegates after the primaries in Oregon and Washington, which happen in late May. Trump, lone survivor in Republican White House race, now must unify party REUTERS // STEVE HOLLAND Donald Trump on Wednesday became the last man standing in the race for the Republican U.S. presidential nomination and faced the challenge of repairing deep fissures in the party, as his sole remaining rival, John Kasich, ended his campaign. Anointed the presumptive nominee after winning Indiana on Tuesday and driving his closest rival, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, from the race, the 69-year-old New York billionaire planned to set up a vice presidential selection committee and step up efforts to seek unity among a wider group of Republicans ahead of the Nov. 8 election. Trump's win in Indiana cleared the way for him to prepare for a likely general election match-up against Democrat Hillary Clinton. The former secretary of state lost the Indiana primary to tenacious challenger U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, but remains on course to become her party's nominee. Trump told NBC News he would probably work with the Republican National Committee to raise about $1 billion for the general election campaign. Ted Cruz's $10 million donor backs Donald Trump USA TODAY // FREDREKA SCHOUTEN Toby Neugebauer, a wealthy energy investor, likes Ted Cruz so much that he deposited $10 million into a super PAC designed to boost the Texas Republican's presidential ambitions. On Wednesday, Neugebauer was in Donald Trump's camp after the reality TV star's big win in the Indiana primary Tuesday ended the campaigns of Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich. "Today, I am a Trump supporter," Neugebauer told USA TODAY. "I am excited about the voters he turned up." Several Republican donors, including Neugebauer, are moving to unite behind the brash billionaire who vanquished 16 other candidates to emerge as the GOP's standard-bearer, even as his positions on health care and trade and his harsh rhetoric about women and some immigrants prompted fierce opposition from the party's establishment wing. "I am going to do what I can to help him," said Stanley Hubbard, a Minnesota broadcasting magnate who had contributed money to a super PAC that spent heavily to thwart Trump in early contests. "He wasn't my first choice, but I think you'll find he'll moderate himself" in the general-election campaign. Seven pols who could be Donald Trump's VP pick (and two who won't) THE BOSTON GLOBE // JAMES PINDELL Donald Trump, after winning the Indiana primary this week and becoming the party's presumptive nominee, has begun openly talking about his parameters for selecting a running mate. First, the person would have to be a Republican (Sorry to former US senator Joe Lieberman, who has said kind words about Trump). Secondly, Trump said he is looking for someone with political experience. "I have the business, let's call them talents, and I think I'll probably go the political route," Trump told ABC's "Good Morning America" on Wednesday. "Somebody that can help me with legislation and somebody that can help me get things passed and somebody that's been friends with the senators and congressmen and all so we don't have to go the executive order route as much as Obama did, you know, where he can't get anything approved so he just keeps signing executive orders." The 12 Signs That Trump Will Win the White House POLITICO // MATT LATIMER Unless the #NeverTrump people have been hiding a mad scientist with a DeLorean in a warehouse somewhere and haven't gotten around to telling anybody, Donald J. Trump is now the certain Republican nominee for president of the United States. True to form, having learned nothing from their yearlong string of overconfident and embarrassingly wrong predictions about voter behavior and preferences, the D.C. pundit class has already proclaimed him a general election loser. Not so fast. For the handful of polls that have Trump losing by double digits, there's one or two that foretell a much closer race. And if enough major chips fall the tangerine billionaire's way, he may get his shot at repainting the White House metallic gold. Want to know if you should join Lena Dunham on a house-hunting trip in Canada? Here's a month-by-month guide of the signs of a looming Trump victory. Ted Cruz's zombie campaign POLITICO // KYLE CHENEY Ted Cruz's run for president is over, but this weekend, his operatives will fight on, heading to a pair of state conventions to push the campaign's preferred delegates to the Republican National Convention. According to a GOP source familiar with the Cruz campaign's decision, staff will be on the ground in North Carolina and South Carolina, where 56 delegates will be selected. Some will even fan out next week when a dozen more states - including Cruz's home state of Texas - pick their national delegates. It's an effort, two Cruz sources told POLITICO, to pack the convention full of conservatives who can stand up to any attempt by Donald Trump to weaken conservative planks of the GOP platform or rework the rules that govern the presidential nomination process. "It's still important that we have a conservative convention ... I think we would be doing Ted Cruz a disservice if we gave up that fight," said Rob Uithoven, who helmed Cruz's operation in western states. "It'll be even more difficult now with the campaign suspended to try to get our [delegates] elected." Uithoven sent a letter Wednesday to the Cruz leadership teams in each of the western states he oversaw urging the delegates he helped elect to attend the national convention rather than cede the floor to Trump. Trump: I'm open to Cruz as VP THE HILL // MARK HENSCH Donald Trump on Wednesday said that he would consider making Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) his running mate. "I respect Ted," he told host Bill O'Reilly on Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor." "He was a very strong competitor. He really competed hard and tough." "He's certainly a capable guy," the presumptive GOP presidential nominee added. "It's something we can think about." Trump defeated Cruz in Tuesday's Indiana GOP presidential primary, making him the presumptive nominee. Cruz suspended his Oval Office bid shortly afterward, saying that his results in the Hoosier State "foreclose" his path to the Republican presidential nomination. Trump on Wednesday said that he does not resent Cruz for their often bitter contest against each another. No, Ted Cruz did not endorse Hillary Clinton USA TODAY // STEPH SOLIS Ted Cruz has been full of surprises lately, but an endorsement for Hillary Clinton isn't one of them. Some thought otherwise when they went to tedcruz.com less than a day after the Texas senator suspended his presidential campaign. It's not Cruz's real campaign website, which remains alive and well at tedcruz.org. It's unclear at this point who is behind the fake page, which confused (and amused) some voters. Back in February, then-presidential hopeful Jeb Bush became the victim of a website prank pulled by Donald Trump. Except Trump took over Bush's official campaign website after the Bush campaign let the website domain expire. Analysis: Ted Cruz Maybe Should Have Been Less Of A Jerk To Everyone HUFFINGTON POST // JASON LINKINS Last night, after the Indiana primary results were called, almost immediately, for reality television star and R'lyehian love-pillow Donald Trump, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz - thought to be the last hope of the "#NeverTrump" movement if we weren't counting John Kasich (and we weren't) - bowed out of the race, elbowing his wife in the face in the process. Cruz vacates the race after winning a handful of states and demonstrating some degree of savviness when it comes to meticulously working the delegate selection process. This probably will give him hope to believe he might give this whole running-for-president thing another try in 2020. There is one thing he might consider doing differently, however: Maybe don't be a huge prick to everybody. Maybe just cut back on the whole being-a-prick thing by, like, 50 percent. Give that a try. Think about it: At a time when Cruz needed everything possible to break his way in Indiana to forestall Trump running the tables and making it certain he'd get the number of delegates he needed to claim the GOP nomination outright, you got former Speaker of the House John Boehner describing Cruz as "Lucifer in the flesh." Boehner went on to say, "I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life." Waiting for Kasich THE ATLANTIC // NORA KELLY Landmark Aviation sits 30 miles away from the White House, a mini private airport for those who won't deign to wait in line at Dulles. This is the place-a bleak airport on a foggy post-primary morning, with sleek jets idling beyond the lobby's large windows-that the John Kasich campaign chose for his reintroduction: as the only guy standing between Donald Trump and the Republican nomination, and the one who'd wrest it from the billionaire in July. Politicians typically use places like this, austere as they are, to embark on new and bold ventures. What could be bolder than staying in a presidential race when voters really don't want you? The Ohio governor had outlasted 16 others to make it to this moment near Washington, D.C.-the city where he worked as a young congressman, and where he aspired to be by next year. He kept his head down. He was nice when others turned bitter. And his campaign would (quixotically) continue. Kasich's chief strategist had said as much after dismal returns on Tuesday night, and reporters gathered Wednesday morning to hear how it would go. But Kasich never arrived, and news shortly leaked that he would drop out of the U.S. presidential race. The candidate's plane, like his campaign itself, hadn't successfully made it out of Ohio. Carson floats Cruz as attorney general to go after Clinton POLITICO // BRIANNA GURCIULLO Ben Carson has a plan for Ted Cruz now that the Texas senator has dropped out of the GOP presidential race: attorney general, then Supreme Court justice under a Trump administration. When Fox News Radio's John Gibson asked Carson on Wednesday whether it would be "smart" for presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump to offer Cruz a position on the Supreme Court, he said yes. "I think he would be terrific on the Supreme Court, or I think he would be a terrific attorney general. Or he could be both," Carson said. "He could be attorney general first, you know, go ahead and prosecute Hillary, and then go on the Supreme Court." Gibson went on to ask the former presidential candidate whom Trump should choose as his running mate. "I wouldn't advise him to pick me," Carson said. "I would advise him to pick someone who really is willing and able to take a significant part of the load." Editorials/Op-Eds John Kasich Exits an Ugly Campaign Season THE NEW YORK TIMES // THE EDITORIAL BOARD John Kasich's suspension of his presidential campaign eliminates the last remaining, and most reasonable, Republican opponent to Donald Trump. Mr. Kasich, the Ohio governor, polled higher than Mr. Trump against Hillary Clinton. That became his sole rationale for remaining in the race as he almost cheerfully racked up primary losses, winning only his home state and fewer total delegates than did Senator Marco Rubio, who dropped out in March. In a brief speech on Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Kasich focused mostly on the people he met on the campaign trail. He said that their stories reminded him that "the spirit, the essence of America lies in the hearts and souls of us." He did not mention his opponents or any specifics about his future. "As I suspend my campaign today, I have renewed faith, deeper faith, that the Lord will show me the way forward and fulfill the purpose of my life," he said. A Trump reboot? Impossible. WASHINGTON POST // EDITORIAL BOARD NOW THAT a reality-television star has all but secured their nomination , Republicans are scrambling to adjust - or hoping that Donald Trump will change. Not surprisingly, GOP Chairman Reince ("Winning is the antidote to a lot of things") Priebus was one of the first to hail the "presumptive @GOP nominee " Tuesday night on Twitter and call for party unity. Former Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal - who last fall recognized Mr. Trump as a " narcissist ," "an egomaniac," "a carnival act" who "believes in nothing " and is "absurd," "insecure and weak" and "dangerous" - now says he will vote for the man. The Wall Street Journal editorial page , previously eloquent in its opposition, urges Mr. Trump to behave "in a way that reduces his epic unfavorable numbers with many voters."


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Allan, Thanks very much for the e-mail. Your insights have been great in the past and we expect that to continue. With respect to communication, please e-mail all material market information to myself and East Power desk leaders (error on the side of sending more info rather than less). The e-mail list should include: Kevin Presto (East Power) Dana Davis (NE Region) Fletch Sturm (MW/SE Region) Rob Benson (PJM & NY) Doug Gilbert-Smith (ERCOT) Andy Zipper (Crude & Power/Gas Options) Again, we look forward to working with you. -----Original Message----- From: Allan Stewart Sent: Thu 2/28/2002 4:05 PM To: Davis, Mark Dana; Presto, Kevin M. Cc: Subject: PIRA Eastern Grid Outlook Kevin and Dana, I thought you might be interested in seeing this report on the east. It will be going out on the internet soon. There is an interesting discussion on the drought and some drought impacts which could hype the market abit. We did not intend to do so but nobody really knows due to the lack of precedents. Before the drought considerations, I would not have wanted to be short the whole Northeast JUL/AUG. With those risks, it further makes the case. I personally think the gas weakness will come late like last year (Aug/Sep/Oct). That is not in our reference case. Otherwise, this report is pretty bearish overall. In the future, I would like to have ongoing discussions with you, and establish parameters to make sure I economize your time and screen out material you have little interest in. Obviously, we need to talk about only those issues that have the highest expected values based upon our assessments of the market fundamentals and the risks around those outlooks. Thanks for establishing the relationship with us. Morris and I will work hard to make it worth your while. Regards, Allan Stewart astewart@pira.com 212-686-6808


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Hey, Happy to chat. I'm at my desk, 202-863-8148. Best, Mark Mark Paustenbach National Press Secretary & Deputy Communications Director Democratic National Committee W: 202.863.8148 paustenbachm@dnc.org From: Elliott, Philip - Time U.S. Sent: Friday, May 20, 2016 12:11 PM To: Miranda, Luis; Paustenbach, Mark Cc: Frizell, Sam - Time U.S. Subject: DWS Interview Request Hey, Gents. Sam and I are working on a story for next week's issue about where the Democrats go next after we all felt the Bern. Is it possible that we can get the Chair for an interview? We could do in person or by phone-whatever is easiest for her. We've seen him-and his supporters-move the Party in a pretty significant way that could have re-allignment issues for a generation. The story will be a significant part of next week's magazine (read between the lines), which goes to print on Wednesday of next week. Can we hop on the line to chat today? Thanks, Phil - Philip Elliott TIME philip.elliott@time.com 202.861.4012 (d) 202.531.9208 (m) @philip_elliott


Morning Martin, It might be worth taking Keith's advice and contacting Malcolm Hughes. I am not convinced that the Bunn study is fully relevant to addressing the use of BP data from Colorado and California as their study site is Montana. Malcolm gave a presentation earlier this year in Edinburgh which presented updated analyses on his BP work which played down the CO2 influence. regards Rob ----- Original Message ----- From: [1]Martin Juckes To: [2]Rob Wilson Cc: [3]Keith Briffa ; [4]Myles Allen ; [5]Jan Esper ; [6]anders@misu.su.se ; [7]Eduardo.Zorita@gkss.de ; [8]hegerl@duke.edu ; [9]weber@knmi.nl ; [10]t.osborn@uea.ac.uk Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 4:41 PM Subject: Re: Mitrie: Bristlecones Thanks for all those comments. I'm trying to avoid omitting data on the basis of cicrumstantial evidence, even when it is presented enthusiastically. The Bunn et al. study is interesting (attached) because they show estimated dates of the onset of strip-bark growth. It looks to me as though the growth anomaly of the strip-bark trees relative to the others is more to do with this change than anything else. The onset of a positive growth anomaly in the 1850s is certainly too early to be associated with CO2 increases. cheers, Martin On Thursday 16 November 2006 14:51, Rob Wilson wrote: > Re: Mitrie: BristleconesDear All, > For the D'Arrigo et al. 2006 paper, I did indeed consider using the Bristlecone pine data. > However, due to the issues raised by Macintyre and others, we felt that it would be unwise to use these data, especially as our data-set was biased more to higher latitudes. > > However, I did look at the data. I do not like ignoring potential data-sets. > > Of the BP data that I managed to get my hands on, I identified a significant, but relatively weak, correlation with local gridded mean summer temperatures for three sites. These three sites are: Hermit Hill (N = 38; 1048-1983) and Windy Ridge (N = 29; 1050-1985) from Colorado and Sheep Mountain (N = 71; 0 - 1990) from California. > > The attached figure compares the RCS chronology using these data (very similar to the STD version in actual fact) with the North American RCS composite series used in D'Arrigo et al. (2006). Both series have been normalised to the 1200-1750 period to highlight any potential differences in the 20th century. > > There is generally fairly good coherence between the two series between 1100 and the 1900. I personally do not think we have enough sites prior to 1400, so the lack of coherence prior to 1100 might just reflect regional differences and not enough series to derive a meaningful mean function. Although correlation with gridded temperatures are relatively low (~0.40), the coherence with the NA composite would seem to suggest that temperature is the dominant signal over the last 900 years or so. > > In the 20th century, the BP index values are clearly UNDER the NA mean. I would interpret this as suggesting that there does not appear to be any CO2 influence in the BP data. This of course assumes that there is no fertilisation effect in the rest of the NA data. > > There is also the Salzer BP based temperature reconstruction: > [11] > > again this does not correlate particular well with gridded temperatures - in fact it is driven more by trends, but there are some similarities with my BP chronology and NA series. > > I hope this helps the discussion > best regards > Rob > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jan Esper > To: Keith Briffa ; Martin Juckes ; Myles Allen > Cc: [12]anders@misu.su.se ; [13]Eduardo.Zorita@gkss.de ; [14]hegerl@duke.edu ; [15]weber@knmi.nl ; [16]t.osborn@uea.ac.uk ; Wilson Rob > Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 1:36 PM > Subject: Re: Mitrie: Bristlecones > > > ...no, no, not a lot to add from my side. This is much more than I could have said. Except, I once looked at strip bark growth trees in Central Asia, and at least there the cause for this growth form was clear to me (Esper 2000, The Holocene): > > > "Strip-bark growth forms (Ferguson, 1968; Fritts, 1969; Graybill and Idso, 1993; Kelly et al., 1992; Wright and Mooney, 1965) also appear in older Juniper trees. This condition develops as the cambium is damaged locally and will no longer be overgrown. Mechanical damage by rockfall seems to be the principle stimulus for cambial dieback and unilateral growth. In extreme cases only a narrow strip on the stem is still active, creating these eccentric growth forms." > > > I didn't visit the Bristlecone sites yet, but the mechanism might be the same (some physical damage). > > > I believe that over time the crown and root system are reduced, but not at the same rate than the reduction in circumference covered by the cambium. This would be the key for strip bark tree rings being wider than "normal" rings. > > > I am not very convinced that there are long-term fertilization effects by CO2 (but have of course no proof for this). As far as I know, (most) results from free air CO2 enrichment experiments suggest that there is no long-term effect. > > > I Cc Rob Wilson to the mail, as he might have looked at Bristlecone data recently. Pehaps he wants to add something. > > > Best --je > > > At 11:57 Uhr +0000 16.11.2006, Keith Briffa wrote: > Martin and all, > I know Franco very well - but he has not worked extensively with the Bristlecones. I still believe that it would be wise to involve Malcolm Hughes in this discussion - though I recognise the point of view that says we might like to appear (and be) independent of the original Mann, Bradley and Hughes team to avoid the appearance of collusion. In my opinion (as someone how has worked with the Bristlecone data hardly at all!) there are undoubtedly problems in their use that go beyond the strip bark problem (that I will come back to later). > The main one is an ambiguity in the nature and consistency of their sensitivity to temperature variations. It was widely believed some 2-3 decades ago, that high-elevation trees were PREDOMINANTLY responding to temperature and low elevation ones to available water supply (not always related in a simple way to measured precipitation) . However, response functions ( ie sets of regression coefficients on monthly mean temperature and precipitation data derived using principal components regression applied to the tree-ring data) have always shown quite weak and temporally unstable associations between chronology and climate variations (for the high-elevations trees at least). The trouble is that these results are dominated by inter-annual (ie high-frequency) variations and apparent instability in the relationships is exacerbated by the shortness of the instrumental records that restrict analyses to short periods, and the large separation of the climate station records from the sites of the trees. Limited comparisons between tree-ring density data (which seem to display less ambiguos responses) imply that there is a reasonable decadal time scale association and so indicate a real temperature signal , on this time scale .The bottom line though is that these trees likely represent a mixed temperature and moisture-supply response that might vary on longer timescales. > The discussion is further complicated by the fact that the first PC of "Western US" trees used in the Mann et al. analyses is derived from a mixture of species (not just Bristlecones ) and they are quite varied in their characteristics , time span, and effective variance spectra . Many show low interannual variance and a long-term declining trend , up until about 1850 , when the Bristlecones (and others) show the remarkable increasing trend up until the end of the record. The earlier negative trend could be (partly or more significantly) a consequence of the LACK of detrending to allow for age effects in the measurements (ie standardisation) - the very early sections of relative high growth were removed in their analysis, but no explicit standardistion of the data was made to account for remaining slow width changes resulting from tree aging. This is also related to the "strip bark" problem , as these types of trees will have unpredictable trends as a consequence of aging and depending on the precise nature of each tree's structure . > Another serious issue to be considered relates to the fact that the PC1 time series in the Mann et al. analysis was adjusted to reduce the positive slope in the last 150 years (on the assumption - following an earlier paper by Lamarche et al. - that this incressing growth was evidence of carbon dioxide fertilization) , by differencing the data from another record produced by other workers in northern Alaska and Canada (which incidentally was standardised in a totally different way). This last adjustment obviously will have a large influence on the quantification of the link between these Western US trees and N.Hemisphere temperatures. At this point , it is fair to say that this adjustment was arbitrary and the link between Bristlecone pine growth and CO2 is , at the very least, arguable. Note that at least one author (Lisa Gaumlich) has stated that the recent growth of these trees could be temperature driven and not evidence of CO2 fertilisation. > > The point of this message is to show that that this issue is complex , and I still believe the "Western US" series and its interpretation in terms of Hemispheric mean temperature is perhaps a "Pandora's box" that we might open at our peril! > What does Jan say about this - he is very acquainted with these issues? > > cheers > Keith > At 15:01 15/11/2006, Martin Juckes wrote: > Hi, > > Concerning Bristlecones, I had a sympathetic reply from Prof. North, but he > deferred to the person who wrote the relevant paragraph in the NAS report > (Franco Biondi) who is firmly of the view that strip-bark bristlecones should > not be used. I've read a few of the articles cited to back up this statement > and I am surprised by the extreme weakness of the evidence. There is one > study of 27 strip-bark pines which shows that they clearly developed > anomalous growth around 1850. Attributing this to CO2 is odd, to say the > least. I'm writing a brief review of the literature which I'll send round in > a few days time. > > cheers, > Martin > > On Sunday 12 November 2006 22:21, Myles Allen wrote: > > Although it probably doesn't feel like it, it seems to me you're doing > > rather well... > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Martin Juckes > > Sent: 10 November 2006 15:24 > > To: [17]anders@misu.su.se; [18]Eduardo.Zorita@gkss.de; [19]hegerl@duke.edu; > > [20]esper@wsl.ch; [21]k.briffa@uea.ac.uk; Myles Allen; [22]weber@knmi.nl; > > [23]t.osborn@uea.ac.uk > > Subject: Mitrie > > > > Hello, > > > > well, I've had a few exchanges on climateaudit, and decided to leave > > them to > > it for a few days. > > > > I'm going to send an email to Prof. North of the NAS panel to ask if he > > really > > meant "don't use bristlecones", as he is quoted by McIntyre. I believe > > it > > would be incorrect to select sites on the basis of what the data from > > the > > sites looks like, and this makes up a substantial part of the argument > > in > > Graybill and Idso (1993). > > > > Does anyone know where I can get hold of the categorisation of the Sheep > > > > Mountain trees used by Graybill and Idso (ca534.rwl from the WDC for > > paleoclimatology I think) into "strip-bark" and "full-bark"? I've sent > > an > > email to the WDC query address. > > > > I've also sent of for a publication which is cited by co2science as > > using > > Sargasso Sea data with the dating shifted by 50 years (Loehle, 2004, > > Ecological Modelling). This appears to be a source of considerable > > confusion > > among the climate sceptics. The shifted series fits nicely with the idea > > that > > the Medieval Warm Period was warmer than the 20th century, so there is a > > > > widespread perception that it is being ignored to fudge the results. > > > > Apart from a couple of oversights in the documentation of the data files > > > > McIntyre hasn't come up with much yet. I need to read up a bit more on > > the > > different Tornetraesk/Fennoscandia series. There was an interesting > > discussion on "cherrypicking", with contributors suggesting that testing > > the > > effect of removing each proxy series in turn was "cherrypicking" and > > that > > selecting series based on subjective analysis of what the series look > > like > > would be much better! > > > > I've had a comment from the editor saying that responses to non-refereee > > > > comments are optional, especially if the comments are not relevant to > > the > > paper. > > > > cheers, > > Martin > > > > > > > > -- > Professor Keith Briffa, > Climatic Research Unit > University of East Anglia > Norwich, NR4 7TJ, U.K. > > Phone: +44-1603-593909 > Fax: +44-1603-507784 > > [24] > > > > > -- > PD Dr. Jan Esper > Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL > Zuercherstrasse 111, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland > Voice: +41-44-739 2510 > Fax: +41-44-739 2515 > [25] References 1. mailto:m.n.juckes@rl.ac.uk 2. mailto:rob.wilson@ed.ac.uk 3. mailto:k.briffa@uea.ac.uk 4. mailto:allen@atm.ox.ac.uk 5. mailto:esper@wsl.ch 6. mailto:anders@misu.su.se 7. mailto:Eduardo.Zorita@gkss.de 8. mailto:hegerl@duke.edu 9. mailto:weber@knmi.nl 10. mailto:t.osborn@uea.ac.uk 11.  12. mailto:anders@misu.su.se 13. mailto:Eduardo.Zorita@gkss.de 14. mailto:hegerl@duke.edu 15. mailto:weber@knmi.nl 16. mailto:t.osborn@uea.ac.uk 17. mailto:anders@misu.su.se 18. mailto:Eduardo.Zorita@gkss.de 19. mailto:hegerl@duke.edu 20. mailto:esper@wsl.ch 21. mailto:k.briffa@uea.ac.uk 22. mailto:weber@knmi.nl 23. mailto:t.osborn@uea.ac.uk 24.  25.


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