ClimateGate and Britain’s FOI

Courtesy Donklephant  Sun, 11/29/2009 - 11:45am

The release of emails and other documents from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) has proven to be, at the very least, an embarrassment to the scientists involved.

Now, there may be legal issues involved.

Britain’s Freedom of Information Act (FOI) is referenced several times in the stolen emails, notably in a postscript from CRU director Phil Jones :

PS I’m getting hassled by a couple of people to release the CRU station temperature...


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