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[Richard S Courtney] 2-45 A 19:39 19:39 Between “from” and “is” insert the missing phrase “five different data sets”. Reworded as suggested [Richard S Courtney] 2-46 A 19:49 19:49 To correct the grammar, replace “decrease” with “decreased”.

This is true for all conclusions published in all scientific papers. [Richard S Courtney] 1-20 A 6:17 6:17 Delete the word “well” because it is an irrelevant - and self aggrandising - opinion. Accepted. [Richard S Courtney] 1-21 A 6:53 6:53 Replace “… made a compelling, but not quantitative, case …” with “… made a Rejected, because this is an opinion that Confidential, Do Not Cite or Quote Chapter 1: Batch AB (11/16/05) Page 119 of 134

atmospheric CO2 concentration.” (Rorsch A, Thoenes D and Courtney RS, (E&E v10 no2 (2005)). [Richard S Courtney] 1-25 A 7:9 7:9 Replace “continues” with “continued” because the grammatical error is misleading.

[Richard S Courtney] 1-53 A 23:18 23:18 For accuracy and completeness, after “…Gates et al., 1996)” it is very important to add, Rejected. The suggested wording does “because this need for flux corrections indicated the models contained significant error(s) not add to clarity or brevity.

rise of atmospheric CO2 (of about 30%) throughout the twentieth century.” (ref. Rorsch A, Thoenes D and Courtney RS, (E&E v10 no2 (2005)). [Richard S Courtney] 1-67 A 25:30 25:30 For accuracy and completeness, after “… burning of fossil fuels” add “Additionally, it has Rejected.

(It may be useful to consider what Freud would have thought of this misuse modellers which accepted this result. of the phrase “the scientific community”). [Richard S Courtney] 1-49 A 20:34 20:34 For accuracy, replace “added confidence to” with “given some confidence to”. Rejected. The wording suggested by [Richard S Courtney] the reviewer would seem to imply that previously there was no confidence, which is not true. 1-50 A 21:6 21:6 For accuracy and completeness, after “… years to come.” it is very important to add, Rejected.

[Richard S Courtney] 1-84 A 48:0 Replace the notation, “The Greenhouse Effect” with “The Radiative Component of the Rejected for the reasons stated in the Greenhouse Effect” because the statement in the draft diagram is factually incorrect in response to comment (1-76).

See response to comment (1- anthropogenic emissions of CO2 are an insignificant contribution to the observed increase 23). to atmospheric CO2 concentration.” (Rorsch A, Thoenes D and Courtney RS, (E&E v10 no2 (2005)). [Richard S Courtney] 1-43 A 17:13 17:13 For accuracy, it is very, very important to insert the following additional paragraphs.

stated in Page 1-6 Section 1.3 Lines 24 to 27. [Richard S Courtney] 1-12 A 4:50 4:50 Replace “the international community of scientists” with “an international community of Rejected. This appears to be a narrow scientists” because not all past and present scientists were involved. technical point that decreases the flow [Richard S Courtney] of the language and adds no useful information.

[Richard S Courtney] 1-34 A 12:33 12:33 Replace the phrase “the scientific attitude” with “the attitude of many scientists” because Noted. This paragraph has been it is untrue and arrogant to assert that it is not scientific to retain a view because some rewritten and the wording dropped.