date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:04:53 -0000
from: "Mcgarvie Michael Mr \(ACAD\) k364" <M.Mcgarvie@uea.ac.uk>
subject: FW: FW: Jones et al 1990 (FOI_07-09)
to: <P.Jones@uea.ac.uk>

   Phil,


   Dave Palmer has responded as below. We have received a request and the issue is whether we
   deal with it under FOIA or the EIR mentioned below.


   As this may be the beginning of a stream of these I wonder whether half an hour round a
   table with you, Dave Palmer and myself might be useful and help us to focus what we should
   do here?  If you agree I will try and arrange this.


   Thanks


   Michael


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   From: Palmer Dave Mr (LIB) l212
   Sent: 27 February 2007 14:40
   To: Mcgarvie Michael Mr (ACAD) k364
   Subject: FW: FW: Jones et al 1990 (FOI_07-09)


   Michael,

   Having looked at the site below (and found numerous other references to the requester
   online), I can understand Phil's reluctance to respond.  However, unless the request is
   unclear, we have a valid request.

   However, how we deal with it is another matter.


   A number of issues present themselves


   1. Do we 'hold' the data? - Is it UEA that actually holds this information?  If it is on
   disks in Phil's possession outside the UEA, there might be an argument - comes down to a
   matter of control - if these were done as part of his work at UEA, the requester could
   argue that UEA effectively is the 'holder' of the data...


   2. EIR vs. FOI... this is technically, actually an EIR (Environmental Information
   Regulations) request!  There are some advantages to treating it as FOI as under EIR (eg.
   there is no 'appropriate limit') BUT there are more advantages to treating it under EIR.
   For example, we can extend response time to 40 working days, and, the only 'vexatious' test
   is manifest unreasonableness and I think that this might be a possibility depending upon
   the circumstances surrounding the acquisition of the information (see DEFRA site for this
   issue at: [1]http://www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/opengov/eir/pdf/guidance-7.pdf)

   (General EIR guidance at:
   [2]http://www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/opengov/eir/guidance/index.htm)


   I would suggest that we treat as EIR and go from there.... we will either have to reject it
   completely as vexatious or answer it... there is NO appropriate limit under EIR but our
   chances of calling it vexatious are higher and we have longer to respond.  We can also
   charge but there will be some work to pull that off (ie. create fee structure that we can
   send to the requester)


   Am happy to meet to discuss this further....  this is a complex request....


   Cheers, Dave

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   From: Phil Jones [mailto:p.jones@uea.ac.uk]
   Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 10:25 AM
   To: Mcgarvie Michael Mr (ACAD) k364; david.palmer@uea.ac.uk
   Subject: Re: FW: Jones et al 1990

    MIchael, David,
        I don't really see this as an FOI request. I am really loathed to
    send them the data even if I could find it. The paper was published
    in 1990 and the work done in 1989. The work was done years before
    there was the FOI. The data used were from the Soviet Union, Australia
    and China.
       One of the reason's for not helping them is this link.
    [3]http://www.climateaudit.org/
    and then click on the story called 'Phil Jones and the Dutiful Comrades'
    The story (for want of a better way of describing it) was written by the
    person who has asked me for the data.
    I would ask you to skim the story and read the tone of it and some
    of the comments on the site. No matter what I do or say will make
    one bit of difference to their attitudes. It will just waste my time. If
    you want me to go through this pointless exercise then it is only me
    who can do this and with a number of trips away, I don't have the time
    before the last week of March.
     As an aside - the data we have for Malye Karamkuly is almost
    complete from about 1920 until 1988.  This one happens to be
    the first one in the list. The 1990 paper had co-authors from Russia,
    China, Australia and the US. The Russian/Soviet data were received
    from the Russian. He is now working in the USA.
    Best Regards
    Phil
   At 08:44 23/02/2007, Mcgarvie Michael Mr \(ACAD\) k364 wrote:

   Phil,

   Dave Palmer has logged the recent email to you (copied to him) as another FOIA request.  I
   can see that we might be into a run of these given the website you directed us to last
   week.  I am sorry that my optimism that the previous request was a one-off has been
   unfounded.

   Under FOIA we have 28 days to respond - the same principles apply as with the previous
   request (ie is data publicly available somewhere else; is the length of time to assemble
   these specific data sets too costly etc). Dave will respond formally on behalf of the
   University (and I guess that this may also end up posted on a website somewhere).

   Let me now how you want to proceed here.

   Best wishes

   Michael


   Michael McGarvie
   Senior Faculty Manager
   Faculty of Science
   Room 0.22C
   University of East Anglia
   Norwich NR4 7TJ
   tel: 01603 593229
   fax: 01603 593045
   [4]m.mcgarvie@uea.ac.uk

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   From: Palmer Dave Mr (LIB) l212
   Sent: 22 February 2007 20:45
   To: Mcgarvie Michael Mr (ACAD) k364
   Subject: FW: Jones et al 1990

   Michael,
   I will log this as another FOI request - different requester and different request I
   think....
   Back to Phil for more input?

   Cheers, Dave
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   From: Steve McIntyre [[5]mailto:stephen.mcintyre@utoronto.ca]
   Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 5:15 PM
   To: Jones Philip Prof (ENV) f028
   Cc: David Palmer
   Subject: Jones et al 1990
   Dear Phil, a couple of years ago, I requested the identities and data for the Russian,
   Chinese and Australian networks studied in Jones et al Nature 1990 on urbanization. At the
   time, you said that it would be unduly burdensome to locate the information among your
   diskettes as the study was then somewhat stale.  However, I notice that Jones et al 1990
   has been cited in IPCC AR4 (in the section where you were a Coordinating Lead Author) and
   continues to be cited in the literature (e.g. Peterson 2003).

   Accordingly, I re-iterate my request for the identification of the stations and the data
   used for the following three Jones et al 1990 networks:

   1. the west Russian network
   2. the Chinese network
   3. the Australian network

   For each network, if a subset of the data of the data was used, e.g. 80 stations selected
   from a larger dataset, I would appreciate all the data in the network, including the data
   that was not selected.

   In each case, please also provide the identification and data for the stations used in the
   gridded network which was used as a comparandum in this study.

   Thank you for your attention.

   Steve McIntyre



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