cc: Tim Osborn <t.osborn@uea.ac.uk>,P.Jones@uea.ac.uk, David.Palmer@uea.ac.uk, "Mcgarvie Michael Mr \(ACAD\)" <M.Mcgarvie@uea.ac.uk>
date: Fri, 16 May 2008 11:21:53 +0100
from: Keith Briffa <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>
subject: Response to Holland - FYI
to: susan.solomon@noaa.gov,john.f.mitchell@metoffice.gov.uk, jean.jouzel@lsce.ipsl.fr,Eystein Jansen <Eystein.Jansen@geo.uib.no>, Jonathan Overpeck <jto@u.arizona.edu>,David Rind <drind@giss.nasa.gov>, rahmstorf@ozean-klima.de,Bette Otto-Bleisner <ottobli@ncar.ucar.edu>, cddhr@giss.nasa.gov,joos <joos@climate.unibe.ch>, "Ricardo Villalba" <ricardo@lab.cricyt.edu.ar>, Valerie Masson-Delmotte <Valerie.Masson@cea.fr>, Dominique Raynaud <raynaud@lgge.obs.ujf-grenoble.fr>, jean-claude.duplessy@lsce.cnrs-gif.fr,dolago@uonbi.ac.ke, peltier@atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca,rramesh@prl.res.in, olgasolomina@yandex.ru,derzhang@msn.com

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Dear Colleagues and fellow IPCC Chapter 6 authors
For you information, I am copying my response to a letter I received 
from someone who is actively
engaged on behalf of the Climate Change Sceptic lobby, here and 
abroad. As Tim and I  informed you earlier,
this person has also applied under the UK Freedom of Information Act 
(FOIA), for access to all of our email
correspondence in relation to our roles as  IPCC authors. This FOIA 
request is being considered by the relevant authorities at our 
university, but on advice from them and after discussion with my 
colleagues here, I have decided to send the attached brief personal 
response to the initial letter (also attached for reference). In this 
I take the opportunity to correct one widely
promulgated erroneous notion that certain data were "censored" in the 
production of Figure 6.10b.
I  note and agree with Susan's opinion that the appropriate source of 
information for research into the
development of the final chapter text is the web archive of FOD and 
SOD comments and responses. By providing this reply, however, it is 
hoped that it will be considered that I did not dismiss Holland's 
questions out of hand. My responses are intended to offer some 
personal comments while  protecting the confidentiality of author 
interactions.  I hope that none of you will consider that this letter 
in any way compromises or undermines the IPCC reporting process and 
it clearly indicates that further correspondence will not be entered 
into on the matter. I realise some of you may not agree with entering 
into any discussion at all and all I can say is that this has until 
now been my own opinion and the decision to send this response was 
not taken lightly.

Also , thanks to each of you for your responses to the letter Tim and 
I sent regarding the FOIA request. Please be assured that Tim and I 
are determined to respect your wishes fully.

best wishes
Keith

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Professor Keith Briffa,
Climatic Research Unit
University of East Anglia
Norwich, NR4 7TJ, U.K.

Phone: +44-1603-593909
Fax: +44-1603-507784

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