date: Wed Jun 18 14:36:55 2008
from: Phil Jones <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>
subject: FOI correspndence
to: "Palmer Dave Mr \(LIB\)" <David.Palmer@uea.ac.uk>, "Tim Osborn" <t.osborn@uea.ac.uk>, "Briffa Keith Prof \(ENV\)" <K.Briffa@uea.ac.uk>, "Mcgarvie Michael Mr \(ACAD\)" <M.Mcgarvie@uea.ac.uk>

    Dave, Michael,
        We have just spoken to John Mitchell. Apart from contacting
    Marion Archer you should also try and speak to Nick Benson, who
    is a lawyer at the Met Office. So can you persevere with trying to contact
    her. John is in Geneva at the moment but will be back contactable in the UK
    on Friday.
        John doesn't seem to be getting much advice at the Met Office.
    We have told him that you will send hard copies of the proposed response and copies of the
   earlier letters
    and responses.
       John's address is
    Dr John Mitchell
    Met Office
   > FitzRoy Road  Exeter  Devon  EX1 3PB  United Kingdom
   > Tel: +44 (0)1392 886427  Fax: +44 (0)1392 885681
    Below is the issue about the web site
    Cheers
    Phil

    See below re the point I made at the end of our meeting this morning.
    I suspect it relates to this sub-page
    [1]http://www.sepp.org/Archive/controv/ipcccont/ipcccont.html

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     Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:59:06 -0700
     From: Ben Santer <santer1@llnl.gov>
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     Subject: Your website
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     To the Editor
     American Liberty Publishers
     Minneapolis, MN 55418
     Dear Sir,
     Your website ([5]http://www.amlibpub.com/top/contact_us.html) was recently brought to my
     attention. On this site, you make the following claims:
     "In the Second Assessment Report, Benjamin Santer, lead author of a crucial study,
     falsified a chart to make it appear to support global warminga conclusion not supported
     at all by the original data. But two climatologists, Knappenberger and Michaels, looked
     up the data and exposed the fraud. Santer said he adjusted the data to make it agree
     with political policy."
     These claims have no factual basis whatsoever, and are demonstrably libelous. I did not
     falsify data. I did not commit fraud. I did not - nor have I ever - "adjusted"
     scientific data "to make it agree with political policy." Nor did I ever state that I
     had made data adjustments in order to conform to political policy.
     I request that you retract these claims immediately. They are completely fictitious, and
     are harmful to my scientific reputation. If you do not retract these claims
     immediately,  I will transfer this matter to the attention of legal staff at Lawrence
     Livermore National Laboratory.
     Sincerely,
     Dr. Benjamin Santer
     U.S. Dept. of Energy Distinguished Scientist (2006)
     Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award (2002)
     John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellow (1998)
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     Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison
     Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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     Livermore, CA 94550, U.S.A.
     Tel:   (925) 422-2486
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   Prof. Phil Jones
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