Tag Archives: Freedom of Information Act

Legal exemplars cited in Michael Mann’s UVA email case

Posted on January 26, 2012 by

Mann alludes to his “dirty laundry” which cannot come out, requesting his correspondent to not pass the email or the data attached to it to anyone else (PE-22). The Environmental Law Center of the American Tradition Institute PRESS RELEASE For … Continue reading →

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PEERs rush in: Climate Science Legal Defense Fund

Posted on January 25, 2012 by

Andrew Revkin reports today on the engagement of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) to the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund created by Professor Scott Mandia, aka “Supermandia” as he sees himself in the photo below. From Scott Mandia’s blog-he … Continue reading →

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UK police seize computers of skeptic blogger in England

Posted on December 23, 2011 by

UPDATE: 12/21/11 4PM  -BBC covers Tallbloke, finally, Richard Black still silent-  Norfolk constabulary to share hand-off Climategate investigation, and  Greg Laden caves – see below Dec 14th -The first blogger to break the Climategate2 story has had a visit from … Continue reading →

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NYT reporter engages in zany conspiracy theory – suggests bloggers “knew” FOIA emails were coming

Posted on December 22, 2011 by

This is almost as clueless as the raid on Tallbloke by the police looking for scraps. But it does underscore one thing – investigators are clueless and so is the major press. For the record, I don’t know who “FOIA” … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 160 Comments

Chevy Volt problems may have been deferred by NHTSA to protect “fragility of Volt sales” – FOIA demands launched

Posted on December 9, 2011 by

Here’s an interesting BBC story about the safety hazards associated with the Chevy Volt — specifically, the risk that its battery pack could catch fire after even a minor impact. But the real problem may no longer be a technical … Continue reading →

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The Climategate email network infrastructure

Posted on November 30, 2011 by

Guest Post by David M. Hoffer Since both ClimateGate 1&2 there has been considerable confusion in regard to how the emails were obtained, how the FOIA requests were managed, and what was or wasn’t possible in that context.  There is … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | Tagged , , , , , , , | 151 Comments

The Steve Zwick Guide to Defending the Indefensible

Posted on November 29, 2011 by

Guest post by James Padgett There have been several “defenses” to the rather damning emails in the latest release from FOIA. Some, having taken the lead from the CRU itself and cherry-picked their own emails to defend – and then … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate, Opinion | Tagged , , , , , , , | 53 Comments

♫ You’ve got…that vexatious feeling ♫

Posted on November 28, 2011 by

It started out simple enough, a standard “righteous” FOIA request to UEA/CRU’s David Palmer, the FOI officer, from a researcher in Britain no less. This is email 0584.txt Dr. Phil Jones take on it didn’t seem to impress FOI agent … Continue reading →

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Why all the cloak and dagger stuff if this is all settled science…?

Posted on November 26, 2011 by

Reader “just the facts” writes in comments: Here is an example of Phil Jones trying to avoid a FOIA request, but he apparently struggles with the implementation…:

Posted in Climategate | Tagged , , , , , , , | 98 Comments

Briffa asks for email deletion becuase FOIA is a “time sink” and an “inconvenient subsequent distraction”

Posted on November 25, 2011 by

0058.txt date: Thu Oct  9 17:56:17 2008 from: Keith Briffa <k.briffa@uea.xxxx> subject: Re: Tom Giverin – IN STRICT CONFIDENCE to: “Toumi, Ralf” <r.toumi@imperial.xxxx> Ralf [[[redacted: reference]]] Finally, might I ask that you note and then erase this email. I have … Continue reading →

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Cracking the remaining FOIA2011 all.7z file

Posted on November 22, 2011 by

There’s an embedded archive file called all.7z which contains thousands of additional emails and files. The 7zip archiver in which this is stored uses 256 bit AES encryption. It’s a tough nut to crack. “FOIA” chose this most likely because … Continue reading →

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Why I want Mike Mann’s Emails

Posted on November 14, 2011 by

By Dr. David Schnare N.B., Dr. Schnare is the lead attorney in the UVA-Mann email case. This week Nature Magazine published an editorial suggesting that “access to personal correspondence is a freedom too far” and that Michael Mann, whom they … Continue reading →

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Michael Mann wades into the UVA thicket as intervenor

Posted on November 2, 2011 by

By Chris Horner, ATI Michael Mann made his way back to the Commonwealth of Virginia yesterday to watch his U.S. lawyer reprise the dark conspiracy theories previously weaved throughout his Canadian lawsuit against Tim Ball for repeating the old joke … Continue reading →

Posted in FOI, Michael E. Mann | Tagged , , , | 245 Comments

BREAKING: An IPCC backchannel ‘cloud’ was apparently established to hide IPCC deliberations from FOIA.

Posted on October 17, 2011 by

UPDATE: (9:20 PST 10-17) the FOI request has been released, a copy of which is now linked below. This story will remain at the top of WUWT for a day or two. New stories will appear below this one. CEI … Continue reading →

Posted in FOI, IPCC | Tagged , , | 185 Comments

Green FAIL – FOIA shows dangerous university biomass power plant fraught with problems, closures, explosion

Posted on October 9, 2011 by

USC’s biomass plant debacle How the university’s green dream went bust after three ‘potentially lethal accidents’ and a host of other problems By WAYNE WASHINGTON (The State Newspaper) On June 28, 2009, an explosion rocked the biomass-fueled power plant on … Continue reading →

Posted in energy, FOI, Green tech | Tagged , , , , | 82 Comments

Mann UVA emails released

Posted on August 24, 2011 by

Via email I’m getting reports that the American Tradition Institute has a CD ROM of the Mann University of Virginia emails in hand and are evaluating them. They are in a 4.3 Megabyte file consisting of 3,827 pages. Given the … Continue reading →

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Bizarre: NYT follows AAAS lead on “FOIA requests equate to death threats”

Posted on June 29, 2011 by

Chris Horner of the American Tradition Institute writes in with this: So the American Association for the Advancement of Science, thoroughly rattled by the American Tradition Institute’s FOIA requests of UVa and NASA — and even more so by the … Continue reading →

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NASA’s Hansen asked to account for outside activities

Posted on June 21, 2011 by

Gavin Schmidt’s time spent on editing realclimate.org during working hours apparently was the trigger for a broader investigation. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, June 21, 2011 Contacts: Christopher Horner, chris.horner@atinstitute.org  Paul Chesser, paul.chesser@atinstitute.org ATI Law Center Asks Court to Force NASA … Continue reading →

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Emails, schmemails – its only harrassment when they do it,

Posted on June 12, 2011 by

Without even invoking the angst the media had over climategate emails, where somebody simply got fed up with the constant illegal sidestepping of FOI requests and dumped the whole lot… FOIA said November 17, 2009 at 9:57 pm e We … Continue reading →

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Mann’s Hockey Stick, Climategate, and FOI – in a nutshell

Posted on June 2, 2011 by

On the Climate Audit thread, The Vergano FOI Request the irascible Nick Stokes provokes another commenter “mpaul”, to lay out all the history in a simple summary that even Nick might understand. I thought it was worth repeating here for readers who … Continue reading →

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Virginia university releases correspondence of professor involved in ‘Hockey Stick’ controversy

Posted on June 2, 2011 by

Silence from pressure groups deafening; media joins hypocrisy FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, May 31, 2011 Contacts: Christopher Horner, chris.horner@atinstitute.org Paul Chesser, paul.chesser@atinstitute.org American Tradition Institute’s Environmental Law Center has learned that George Mason University, in response to a Freedom of … Continue reading →

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Foilball, the American return serve

Posted on April 14, 2011 by

The Foilball match was started at UVA with the help of a whole bunch of NGO’s, however, as Chris Horner points out in this press release, the hypocrisy is breathtaking when it comes to similar actions against former UVA faculty … Continue reading →

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Quote of the Week – Note to NOAA

Posted on March 13, 2011 by

Steve McIntyre at ClimateAudit has written another essay on the poor way that CRU/UEA and NOAA have dealt with FOIA requests. To say “poor”, that means in some cases “not at all”. He makes this salient point:

Posted in Climategate, FOI | Tagged , , , , , | 70 Comments

Stronger FOIA law now under review in Virginia

Posted on February 9, 2011 by

ATI Praises VA House Passage of Strengthened FOIA Law FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, February 9, 2011 The American Tradition Institute today praised yesterday’s passage of a stronger Freedom of Information Act law in the Commonwealth of Virginia’s House of Delegates, … Continue reading →

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Hansen gets FOIA’d on ethics issues with NASA

Posted on January 19, 2011 by

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, January 19, 2011 Contact: Christopher Horner, chris.horner@atinstitute.org ATI Environmental Law Center Seeks NASA Records on Dr. James Hansen Today the American Tradition Institute’s Environmental Law Center filed a federal Freedom of Information Act request with NASA, … Continue reading →

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