cc: "tim Osborn" date: Mon, 25 May 2009 16:36:10 +0100 (BST) from: "Tim Osborn" subject: FOI and IPCC AR5 to: p.jones@uea.ac.uk, k.briffa@uea.ac.uk Hi Keith & Phil, I guessed right: David Holland does intend to obtain IPCC AR5 correspondence *during* the preparation of AR5 rather than afterwards: "So far the Information Commissioner’s Office has tried to throw out two of my complaints and is sitting on the rest. The ICO is under resourced and overloaded and the EIR is a lot more trouble for them than the FOIA. We may have to go through two years of guerilla war but you can all join in. The point is not AR4 but to get precedence so as to get into AR5 information as soon as it is held. I doubt this point has escaped our friends at the IPCC." The bit about "you can all join in" has a link to whatdotheyknow.com, which assists people in making FOI requests. This encouragement of others to join his campaign/war might eventually help us, if it is enough to count as vexatious. Tim -- Dr. Tim Osborn RCUK Academic Fellow Climatic Research Unit School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~timo/