date: Sat, 17 May 2008 09:57:39 +0200
from: Fortunat Joos <joos@climate.unibe.ch>
subject: Re: Response to Holland - FYI
to: Keith Briffa <k.briffa@uea.ac.uk>

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Dear Keith,

Thank you for your time and effort to deal with this request - well 
done. All the best, Fortunat

Keith Briffa schrieb:
> Dear Colleagues and fellow IPCC Chapter 6 authors
> For you information, I am copying my response to a letter I received 
> from someone who is actively
> engaged on behalf of the Climate Change Sceptic lobby, here and 
> abroad. As Tim and I  informed you earlier,
> this person has also applied under the UK Freedom of Information Act 
> (FOIA), for access to all of our email
> correspondence in relation to our roles as  IPCC authors. This FOIA 
> request is being considered by the relevant authorities at our 
> university, but on advice from them and after discussion with my 
> colleagues here, I have decided to send the attached brief personal 
> response to the initial letter (also attached for reference). In this 
> I take the opportunity to correct one widely
> promulgated erroneous notion that certain data were "censored" in the 
> production of Figure 6.10b.
> I  note and agree with Susan's opinion that the appropriate source of 
> information for research into the
> development of the final chapter text is the web archive of FOD and 
> SOD comments and responses. By providing this reply, however, it is 
> hoped that it will be considered that I did not dismiss Holland's 
> questions out of hand. My responses are intended to offer some 
> personal comments while  protecting the confidentiality of author 
> interactions.  I hope that none of you will consider that this letter 
> in any way compromises or undermines the IPCC reporting process and it 
> clearly indicates that further correspondence will not be entered into 
> on the matter. I realise some of you may not agree with entering into 
> any discussion at all and all I can say is that this has until now 
> been my own opinion and the decision to send this response was not 
> taken lightly.
>
> Also , thanks to each of you for your responses to the letter Tim and 
> I sent regarding the FOIA request. Please be assured that Tim and I 
> are determined to respect your wishes fully.
>
> best wishes
> Keith
>
> -- 
> Professor Keith Briffa,
> Climatic Research Unit
> University of East Anglia
> Norwich, NR4 7TJ, U.K.
>
> Phone: +44-1603-593909
> Fax: +44-1603-507784

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