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date: Fri, 9 May 2008 12:57:43 -0700
from: Jonathan Overpeck <jto@u.arizona.edu>
subject: Re: request for all correspondence related to IPCC
to: Tim Osborn <t.osborn@uea.ac.uk>

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Dear Tim, Keith and Colleagues: I'm sorry to hear that you are been 
asked to go beyond the  IPCC process that we agreed to when we began 
our involvement with the IPCC AR4. This process was set up in an 
intergovernmental context, and was designed to be open and 
transparent. There was no agreement to share email beyond the 
original senders and recipients. Thus, please do not share any of my 
email correspondence with you without my prior approval.

With regard to your questions, please see my responses below in BOLD.

>(i) whether you have any concerns if we were to release any emails 
>etc. that you may have sent to us (it is entirely possible that any 
>correspondence that we release may be posted on certain websites);

I DO NOT APPROVE OF ANY RELEASE OF ANY EMAIL IN WHICH I WAS EITHER 
THE SENDER OR RECIPIENT.

>
>(ii) whether you or your institutions have received similar requests;

I DO NOT KNOW OF ANY SIMILAR REQUEST.

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>(iii) and, if you have received similar requests, what your response 
>has been / will be.

I DO NOT CONSIDER IT APPROPRIATE TO SHARE MATERIALS, INCLUDING 
EMAILS, THAT WE AGREED WOULD NOT BE SHARED AS PART OF THE IPCC 
INTERGOVERNMENTAL PROCESS.

Best of luck, Peck

-- 
Jonathan T. Overpeck
Director, Institute for the Study of Planet Earth
Professor, Department of Geosciences
Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences

Mail and Fedex Address:

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