At the Bureau's request, our climate data management practices were subject to a rigorous independent peer-review in 2012.
Tim Barnett, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, US, to Gabi Hegerl, Duke University, US, 18 May 2007 (email 850) This is during a discussion about information a group of scientists wants to request from climate modellers to improve their understanding of the models – and presumably improve the models themselves.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: NOAA's research budget would drop 2% to $248 million in the 1998 request, but climate and air-quality research would rise by 8%, with increases for forecasting El Niño and monitoring ground-level ozone.
The emails reveal repeated and systematic attempts by him and his colleagues to block FoI requests from climate sceptics who wanted access to emails, documents and data.
The University of East Anglia breached the Freedom of Information Act when handling requests by climate change sceptics (the university escaped prosecution because the case came to light outside the six-month time limit for cases to be brought).
The files may have been released in connection with a dispute between greenhouse skeptics and the university over Freedom of Information (FOI) requests for climate data.
Horner is best known for filing large numbers of speculative Freedom of Information (FOIA) requests with climate scientists based at U.S. universities, to the frequency that it has been described as "harassment".
In an interview, Jane Lubchenco, the director of NOAA, rejected that claim and said her agency had been deluged with information requests regarding future climate risks.
Last week the Information Commissioner's Office released a statement condemning the university for its handling of FoI requests from the climate sceptic David Holland.
For France alone that's 25 Eiffel towers of waste") to the chocolate bars handed out on the way in (containing letters from the world's children as a "sweet reminder" of the requests from young "climate justice ambassadors").
