cc: "tim Osborn" <t.osborn@uea.ac.uk>
date: Mon, 25 May 2009 16:36:10 +0100 (BST)
from: "Tim Osborn" <t.osborn@uea.ac.uk>
subject: FOI and IPCC AR5
to: p.jones@uea.ac.uk, k.briffa@uea.ac.uk

Hi Keith & Phil,

I guessed right: David Holland does intend to obtain IPCC AR5
correspondence *during* the preparation of AR5 rather than afterwards:

<http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=6040#comment-342457>

"So far the Information Commissioners Office has tried to throw out two
of my complaints and is sitting on the rest. The ICO is under resourced
and overloaded and the EIR is a lot more trouble for them than the FOIA.
We may have to go through two years of guerilla war but you can all join
in. The point is not AR4 but to get precedence so as to get into AR5
information as soon as it is held. I doubt this point has escaped our
friends at the IPCC."

The bit about "you can all join in" has a link to whatdotheyknow.com,
which assists people in making FOI requests.  This encouragement of others
to join his campaign/war might eventually help us, if it is enough to
count as vexatious.

Tim

-- 
Dr. Tim Osborn
RCUK Academic Fellow
Climatic Research Unit
School of Environmental Sciences
University of East Anglia
Norwich  NR4 7TJ, UK
www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~timo/


