"We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you (for a FOIA request), when your aim is to try to find something wrong with it."
Dr. Phil Jones,
Director of the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University,
email to Warwick Hughes,
2004
“I’m getting hassled by a couple of people to release the CRU station temperature data. Don’t any of you three tell anybody that the UK has a Freedom of Information Act.”
Dr. Phil Jones,
Director of the Climatic Research Unit,
disclosed Climategate e-mail,
Feb. 21, 2005
“I’ve just completed Mike’s (Michael Mann) Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years and from 1961 for Keith (Briffa) to hide the decline (hide the “Little Ice Age” period).”
Dr. Phil Jones,
Director of the Climatic Research Unit,
disclosed Climategate e-mail,
Nov. 16, 1999
“You might want to check with the IPCC Bureau. I’ve been told that IPCC is above national FOI (Freedom of Information) Acts. One way to cover yourself and all those working in AR5 (the upcoming IPCC Fifth Assessment Report) would be to delete all e-mails at the end of the process. Hard to do, as not everybody will remember it.”
Dr. Phil Jones,
Director of the Climatic Research Unit,
on avoiding Freedom of Information Act requests,
disclosed Climategate e-mail,
May 12, 2009