Oh no, congratulate away.... im not ashamed to have the old ego stroked

One thing worth noting though, which is a merit to the journal in some regards, is that we are publishing in a hostile journal. I say hostile, because two of the editors (one of them being the chief editor) are the top ice core workers whose work we are attacking. So we kept expecting to be shot down before it even got to publishing. So, it is good that there seems to be a degree of scientific integrity with the journal with respect our paper. then again, a more cynical person might ask whether it being an Open Access journal, and so charge a fee to the authors to publish, has any effect upon it being published.

Jonny

The path to good scholarship is paved with imagined patterns. - David M Raup