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…
Category: FOI
The new contract sport: Foilball
It seems that doing maneuvers to foil Freedom of Information Act requests has become the new contract sport of both sides of the pond. UEA and Sir Muir Russell have…
Quote of the Week – Note to NOAA
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…
Stronger FOIA law now under review in Virginia
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…
Hansen gets FOIA'd on ethics issues with NASA
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…
Cuccinelli-Mann probe takes a bizarre twist
Wow. In the middle of the battle, the warmists erroneously send up a flare from their position, drawing undue attention to the target. I rather expected a moribund outcome from…
Government at work: spend $500,000 to save $8,000
Gosh, it can’t be the money, can it? There must be something else going on. The juxtaposition is priceless. From Tom Nelson: UVA spends $500,000 on lawyers when it would…
The plot thickens: BBC Hits UK Govt with Freedom of Information Demand in Cold Winter Forecast Fiasco
By John O’ Sullivan The BBC serves Freedom of Information request (FOIA) on UK Government over weather forecast failures secrecy in worst winter for 100 years. In an almighty battle…
Yes, Virginia, you do have to produce those 'Global Warming' documents
Published on Washington Examiner (http://washingtonexaminer.com) By: Christopher C. Horner, David W. Schnare and Robert Marshall Reprinted with permission from the authors. Yes, Virginia, you do have to produce those ‘Global…
NASA GISS being sued over FOIA failures
CEI’s Chris Horner sends word of this development, via The American Spectator: Last night the Competitive Enterprise Institute, through its outside counsel Gibson Dunn, filed its brief arguing against NASA’s…
Peas, thimbles, deletions, FOI, UEA, CRU, and all that
Note: I felt Steve’s essay deserved the wider audience that WUWT could provide. Be sure to go to this thread at CA to post comments. – Anthony Did Jones Delete Emails?…
Government report: Canadian climate data quality 'disturbing'
From the “we told you so time and again department”, Canadian weather data is a mess. It took an FOIA to get the “fess up” out in the open. Anybody…
More FOIA fakery – this time in the USA Homeland Security, plus peer reviewed paper on Climategate FOIA issues
In light of these recent ugly FOI revelations uncovered by the Associated Press, it makes the recent FOIA issues paper by our friend Dr. Jennifer Marohasy and the subsequent scathing…
An FOI Ruling More Significant than the Russell Review
Guest post by David Holland via the GWPF At the request of the University of East Anglia the Information Commissioner has this morning issued his Decision Notice, FER0238017, on my…
Cuccinelli tells court former U-Va. professor's academic freedom not threatened
From the Washington Post Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has told a judge that his request for documents related to the work of former University of Virginia climate scientist Michael…
CEI files suit on GISS regarding FOIA delays
From The American Spectator: CEI Suing NASA Over Climate Stonewall By Chris Horner on 5.27.10 @ 10:57AM This morning in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the Competitive Enterprise…
Doug Keenan finally gets the tree data
Climate sceptic wins landmark data victory ‘for price of a stamp’ Belfast ecologist forced to hand over tree-ring data describes order from information commission as a ‘staggering injustice’ by Fred…
After two years of stonewalling, NASA GISS FOIA files are now online
You can thank Chris Horner of CEI for making this happen. In August 2007, I submitted two Freedom of Information Act requests to NASA and its Goddard Institute for Space…
Newly released FOIA'd emails from Hansen and GISS staffers show disagreement over 1998-1934 U.S. temperature ranking
From a Judicial watch press release NASA Scientists Go on Attack After Climate Data Error Exposed Contact Information: Press Office 202-646-5172, ext 305 Washington, DC — January 14, 2010 Judicial…
McIntyre: The deleted data from the "Hide the Decline" trick
By Steve McIntyre from his camirror.wordpress.com site. For the very first time, the Climategate Letters “archived” the deleted portion of the Briffa MXD reconstruction of “Hide the Decline” fame –…
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