Flashback: Institute of Physics Submission to Parliamentary Inquiry on Climategate

Always worth a reblog. The climate establishment’s response to this submission was to get the IOP sub-committee which produced the report abolished, and to smear its members.

Memorandum submitted by the Institute of Physics (CRU 39)

The disclosure of climate data from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia

The Institute of Physics is a scientific charity devoted to increasing the practice, understanding and application of physics. It has a worldwide membership of over 36,000 and is a leading communicator of physics-related science to all audiences, from specialists through to government and the general public. Its publishing company, IOP Publishing, is a world leader in scientific publishing and the electronic dissemination of physics.

The Institute is pleased to submit its views to inform the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee’s inquiry, ‘The disclosure of climate data from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia’.

The submission details our response to the questions listed in the call for evidence, which was prepared with input from the Institute’s Science Board, and its Energy Sub-group.

What are the implications of the disclosures for the integrity of scientific research?

An important post from Doug Keenan at Bishop Hill

This is an important post:

http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2013/4/9/questions-to-ministers.html

Questions relating to the work of the Met Office on global warming are being put in the UK parliament, and the Met Office is refusing to answer them. Parliamentary Questions have a history going back centuries. Giving answers, or giving a valid reason for not answering, is required. The stand-off is yet to be resolved.

Jeremy Corbyn MP: Dark days for British justice

Dark days for british justice
Tuesday 05 March 2013by Jeremy Corbyn MP

The House of Commons has many strange procedures, and one of them is the selection of amendments for voting on Bills.Monday saw a classic case concerning a major piece of government legislation, the Justice and Security Bill, which introduces the concept of secret courts through “closed material proceedings” (CMPs).We only voted on an opposition amendment requiring an annual review of the process, rather than on a much stronger amendment put forward by Green MP Caroline Lucas and supported by a number of us which would have removed the whole process of secret courts from the Bill.At the heart of this issue is the control of the security services.There has always been a legal process, known as public interest immunity, by which court proceedings can be held in camera or particular evidence withheld – but the general direction now embarked on is eminently much more dangerous than that.

Britain has been drifting away from open justice for a long time.Many of us opposed the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) introduced in 1974 after the Birmingham pub bombings, by which suspects could be held incommunicado and eventually brought to court.This was also accompanied by the use of confessional evidence (where a witness states that the accused has told them of his or her guilt) and huge miscarriages of justice resulted.

University of East Anglia Attempts to Put Frighteners on Tallbloke

I’ve received an unsolicited email purporting to be from a legal firm claiming to represent the University of East Anglia. I’d be grateful if a lawyer with DPA experience, sympathetic to the public interest nature of the case, would get in touch here, with a view to forming a professional legal response to this communication – Thanks, TB.

____________________________________________________

Dear Sir
We act for the University of East Anglia and attach a response to your recent blog posts about a password supplied by ‘Mr FOIA’.
<<Data Protection Act.pdf>>
[Redacted]
Associate
for Mills & Reeve LLP

_____________________________________________________

The content of the attachment is reproduced below the break. Unusually, It has no header, no signature, no indication of provenance at all. My good lady and I have already been put through the wringer once, and we don’t scare so easily anymore.

Forbes Publishes – Then Pulls Climategate Story

Over on James Delingpoles blog article on FOIA, Daily Telegraph commenter ColdfingerUK notes:

This story appears to have been pulled, I wonder why?”Who Released The Climategate Emails And Why Forbes – ‎1 hour ago‎ No, it wasn’t a conspiracy plotted by Big Oil or Republican operatives using mercenary hackers after all. And unless you happen to get all your news from the mainstream media, you will undoubtedly recognize that by “Climategate”, I’m referring here to the …”

Gabfest: Putting down the heretics Soon, Balliunas, Shaviv, Veizer

all.7z 1061565012

cc: ‘The Team’
date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 11:21:57 -0400
from: Gabi Hegerl
subject: Re: POLL ON SOON-BALIUNAS
to: “Michael E. Mann” <mann@virginia.edu>, Tom Crowley

I have seen Balliunas give a talk quite a long while ago, unfortunately, I

cannot recall what the meeting was, it was some kind of global change meeting,

more than 5 years ago.

I do recall that I was thoroughly unimpressed though. There was not much real

exchange between her and the audience. I remember that Jerry North was there

also, because we exchanged amazement in differences in style of approach between the
detection side of work he and I presented, and her – well lets say

more-qualitative style…

Gabi

At 11:07 AM -0400 8/12/03, Michael E. Mann wrote:

Thanks Tom,
The impact ratings you provided seem to be on a different scale from the ones I’ve seen,
but the relative magnitudes and ordering appear about right (in the ratings I’ve seen,
CR comes in at 0.4!).

SRES: Scenarios That Shaped Energy Policy in 1998 For Our Economic Future Had Greenpeace Input

From the all.7z archive:  908478104 and 908487579. This is the tip of a massive iceberg. I have bolded a couple of interesting snippets. If you’ve been wondering why our country continues to be carpeted with useless windmills while the poor and old work out whether they should heat or eat today, this is where we start finding out. I believe it is in the public interest that this material is made publicly available and make no apologies for revealing it.

date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 14:17:15 +0200
from: Arnulf GRUBLER <xxxx@iiasa.ac.at>
subject: SRES emissions scenarios for WGI
to: {IPCC authors and others]

Subject: Interim SRES emission profiles for use of WGI

Introduction: An ad-hoc SRES working group consisting of Arnulf Gruebler,
Tom Kram, Sascha van Rooijen and Steve Smith drafted this proposal based on
the extensive
discussions of the whole SRES writing team during the last meeting held in
Beijing, 7-9 Oct. 1998 in response to comments received from the WGI
electronic disscusion group on emissions
scenarios and from a meeting on this topic organized on the occasion of the
IPCC plenary meeting in Vienna, 30 Sept to
3 Oct 1998.

FOIA Speaks: “It’s time to tie up loose ends”

FOIA speaks: “It’s time to tie up loose ends and dispel some of the speculation surrounding the Climategate affair”
Tom Nelson Writes
I’ve received the following unsolicited email from a person unknown to me:

“Update from Tom:  Yes, the provided password does open all.7z. “
========
Subject:  FOIA 2013: the password

It’s time to tie up loose ends and dispel some of the speculation surrounding the Climategate affair.

Indeed, it’s singular “I” this time.  After certain career developments I can no longer use the papal plural

If this email seems slightly disjointed it’s probably my linguistic background and the problem of trying to address both the wider audience (I expect this will be partially reproduced sooner or later) and the email recipients (whom I haven’t decided yet on).

The “all.7z” password is

Another whopping leak from the IPCC.

Reblogged from Pointman's:

A substantial second leak, already nicknamed the Secret Santa leak, of further portions of the forthcoming IPCC AR5 has just occurred. There was a smaller leak of material last year, which was owned up to by the person who did it on their blog.

While everyone is no doubt considering how on Earth to work their way through a gigabyte of dense reading material, my first thoughts before plunging in myself is to wonder if the leaker is perhaps the same person or persons, commonly called FOIA, who leaked the original climategate material.

Read more… 432 more words

DECC and secondments from outside organisations FOI

Well, this makes interesting reading. The Department of Energy and Climate Change in the UK has some odd bedfellows:

Ref no: 12/1402 2 November 2012

Thank you for your email of 5 October 2012 where you requested the following
information:
Are there personnel working for the department or related agencies who are
seconded from outside organisations?
If the answer is yes how many are there?
From which organisations or companies do they come from, please name them
and give the number of people seconded from each organisation or company
and whether they are paid by the department or by there original employer.
If there are people working for the department who are on secondment and paid
by there employer how much in total was this worth to the department for the
last 3 tax years.
If this request is unclear please contact me.

Freedom of Information Act 2000
Your request has been handled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (‘the Act’).
Under the Act you have the right to:
know whether we hold the information you have requested and;
be provided with that information (subject to any exemptions under the Act which
may apply).
There are people working in the Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) who are
on secondment from outside organisations…