Gavin and Mann… Jailhouse Lawyers. Maybe they had legal coaching but GS should stick to modeling or whatever he does for NASA and leave the legal opinions to someone who knows. Or, start a separate blog:
Gavin Schmidt’s Official NASA Supported Blog Guide to Climate Legality.

And, regarding his other comment re: “Whistleblowing only works if you are revealing illegal activity”…Uh, Gavin, they found illegal activity but it was past the deadline to prosecute.

“This is now OT. – gavin]” Hahrumph!

Too bad he declared it off topic before you pointed out that failing to live up to ones responsibilities under FOI (or FOIA) is illegal activity.

215.Also remember that in the UK there is legislation that protects whistleblowers. Would you call someone in the UK who leaks information from a file in an office (whether private or public) a thief – if it is in the public interest? You are on shaky ground Gavin and should stick to the science and keep away from UK laws and interpretations thereof.

[Response: Sorry, but I will continue to call a theft a theft, and you can continue to cling to the comforting thought that the theft was by a modern day Robin Hood. Whistleblowing only works if you are revealing illegal activity. Arguments about paleo-reconstructions don't count. This is now OT. - gavin]

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[Response: Someone who thinks that GW is a hoax is a crank. And stealing people's emails from a central server and publishing them is a hack regardless of where you do it from....]

Gavin, are you sure you are on solid ground here? Are you sure about UK laws, public and private servers, privacy laws? I don’t know much but you should check carefully first before making such a sweeping pronouncement about email and data ownership, hacking and leaking.

[Response: You think it is legal in any western democracy to hack into your officemate's computer and put their emails on a public server? No way Jose. Unauthorized access to a computer and unauthorised use of any data you find there is a crime almost everywhere. - gavin]

All things begin with Yamal.

-FOIA/documents/yamal/-

Have you discovered the clue?

foi2009.zip at Megaupload.com is identical to the original FTP Russian server version found at tomcity.ru which is no longer available.

From any other source, verify the checksum:

da2e1d6c453e0643e05e90c681eb1df4 FOI2009.zip

Now, it’s time to draft an FOIA request letter to NASA and get the Gavin Schimdt version released.

Whom should I address it to? Hansen?

The checksum from my copy matches.

Re: Greg F (Feb 9 23:13),
Greg F,
Do you have a way of verifying the MD5 checksum on your russian server copy?

It SHOULD match this:

da2e1d6c453e0643e05e90c681eb1df4 FOI2009.zip

I think there is some historical significance in establishing an online source wrt the genealogy/provenance of the original data source(s),which are rapidly disappearing amongst an ocean of clone files. IMO, CA is the proper venue for doing this.

Partially verified Genealogy thus far-

11/17/09 6:20AM EST-
The Gavin Schmidt original FOIA.ZIP is born (Jimchip has a copy?)

November 17, 2009 at 9:57 pm-
An FOIA.ZIP offspring appears at the Air Vent:
tomcity.ru FOI2009.zip (you have a copy)

November 20, 2009 at 12:59 am-
Link to another offspring source posted at the Air Vent:
megaupload=XD050VKY
If the MD5 checksums match, it’s an identical twin to the Russian server version

Any versions appearing after 11/20/2009 are irrelevant.

If we catch Mosher in a generous mood, perhaps he’ll loosen his grip on that WUWT CD-rom copy.

How about it, Mosher? Just puttin’ it out there…