cc: "Ogden Annie Ms (MAC)" , "Colam-French Jonathan Mr (ISD)" date: Wed Sep 23 12:26:15 2009 from: Phil Jones subject: Re: FW: Environmental Information Regulations 2004 request to: "Palmer Dave Mr (LIB)" , "Mcgarvie Michael Mr (ACAD)" Dave, We should discuss this one on October 1 at 08.30. This person is threatening in his final sentence. He claims to be Deputy Head of Life Sciences, but it would seem he has done no research in his life. He is an active blogger on Climate Audit. By Oct 1 I might have more news from the Met Office. They are wanting to do as little as possible as they have just lost all the MoD money for climate science, which was £4M per year. Cheers Phil At 11:27 21/09/2009, Palmer Dave Mr (LIB) wrote: Folks, NOW we have an appeal of this request and I will treat it as such. We have 28 days for the 'informal' answer which gives me a deadline of 19 October. He is disputing the rationale of our exceptions & is asking for 'evidence'.... Cheers, Dave ___________________________________________________________________________________ From: Keiller, Donald [[1]mailto:Don.Keiller@anglia.ac.uk] Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 4:17 PM To: Palmer Dave Mr (LIB) Subject: FW: Environmental Information Regulations 2004 request (FOI_09-128; EIR_09-19) - Response Importance: High Dear Mr. Palmer having had some more time to digest exactly what is said in the attached: Firstly I note that you have not stated that I have the right to an Internal Review of the decisions that were stated in the attached response. By not explicitly stating this, you are in technical breach of the Act I now wish that an internal review of the decision to withhold data is undertaken. In this connection I note that Regulation 9(1) states "A public authority shall provide advice and assistance, so far as it would be reasonable to expect the authority to do so, to applicants and prospective applicants". In particular I want to know why you think it is unreasonable to ask for the exact dataset, as described in a peer- reviewed published paper, on a subject of great public interest and where the usual scientific convention is that authors must provide sufficient detail to allow others to replicate their work. How can you possibly claim it is "manifestly unreasonable" to send me the same data that you have sent elsewhere without any actionable undertakings from that recipient? I also require UEA to justify its assertion that disclosure of said information and data, which virtually all Academies of Science and most journals regard as essential, would have an "adverse effect on international relations and would damage relations with scientists & institutions from other nations". This assertion requires evidence to support it, otherwise it appears to be merely a convenient excuse. Finally I note that there is an obvious contradiction in your claim that you are trying "to seek permission from data suppliers in advance of the next update of the CRUTEM database in 2010 in order to provide public access to this data" and the fact that you are unable to show anything other than a couple of rather old and ineffectual documents to support your claim that this is a significant problem. Accordingly I ask that you immediately publish or send me the data for which you cannot substantiate that an actionable restrictive contract exists. Yours sincerely, Dr. D.R. Keiller, Deputy Head of Life Sciences ___________________________________________________________________________________ From: Palmer Dave Mr (LIB) [[2]mailto:David.Palmer@uea.ac.uk] Sent: 11 September 2009 13:16 To: Keiller, Donald Subject: Environmental Information Regulations 2004 request (FOI_09-128; EIR_09-19) - Response Dr. Keiller Attached please find a response to your request received on 14 August 2009. 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