Explaining ClimateGate: A history of distrust

Salon Letter to Editor ^ | MONDAY, NOV 23, 2009 09:40 PST | ANDREW LEONARD

[grey_whiskers]

Nice catch: but remember that even normal legitimate research funds must be kept *somewhere*.

Still, this does give investigators another place to look.

I'd also like to track down the email of June 5 mentioned below:

From: "Isaak M. Khalatnikov"

To: k.briffa@xxxxxxxxx.xxx

Subject: Keith Briffa

Date: Tue, 10 Jun 97 07:18:26 +0400 (MSD)

Dear Keith,

Thank you for the message of 5 June, 1997.

I am anderstanding your difficulties with transfering money and I think the best way for us if you will bring money to Krasnoyarsk and I give you a receipt.

Rashit will go to Yamal at the end of June and I go to the Polar Urals at the beginnind of July. We can find money temporary at our Institute and other sources for three months to fulfill our fieldworks. Now I am at two weeks holiday with my wife and granddother near Moscow after the meeting of Russian Academy of Sciences where E.Vaganov was elected as the Academician. It is important for dendrochronological srudies at our country and international collaboration.

Sincerely yours Stepan Shiyatov Cheers!