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2 unusual facts about Freedom of Information requests to the Climatic Research Unit


Freedom of Information requests to the Climatic Research Unit

In May 2008 David Holland, an electrical engineer from Northampton, made a FOI request for all emails to and from Keith Briffa about the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4); formal review exchanges had already been published.

Jonathan A. Jones of the University of Oxford and Don Keiller of Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge made FOIA requests for the data that Jones had sent to Webster.


HadCRUT

From the 1990s onwards the unit received requests for raw data made by those critical of the scientific understanding of global warming, and after the UK Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) came into effect in 2005, there were Freedom of Information requests to the Climatic Research Unit for this raw data.


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