Selected CRU Emails, Part II: Independence of the Press?
Cheers!
Thank you!
About 2 months ago I deleted loads of emails, so have very little - if anything at all.
This legislation is different from the FOI - it is supposed to be used to find put why you might have a poor credit rating !
In response to FOI and EIR requests, we’ve put up some data - mainly paleo data. Each request generally leads to more - to explain what we’ve put up. Every time, so far, that hasn’t led to anything being added - instead just statements saying read what is in the papers and what is on the web site!
Tim Osborn sent one such response (via the FOI person) earlier this week. We’ve never sent programs, any codes and manuals. In the UK, the Research Assessment Exercise results will be out in 2 weeks time. These are expensive to produce and take too much time, so from next year we’ll be moving onto a metric based system.
The metrics will be # and amounts of grants, papers and citations etc. I did flippantly suggest that the # of FOI requests you get should be another.
When you look at CA, they only look papers from a handful of people. They will start on another coming out in The Holocene early next year. Gavin and Mike are on this with loads of others.
I’ve told both exactly what will appear on CA once they get access to it!
Cheers Phil
Thanks for the link.