Tag Archives: foi-cru

CRU Refuses FOI Request

Nov 21, 2009 – 9:26 AM

Given the tumultuous events of the past few days, the receipt of yet another refusal to provide station data pursuant to an FOI request may seem a little uneventful. But the chronology of this most recent refusal is, to say the least, interesting.

By Stephen McIntyre | Posted in climategate, FOIA | Also tagged , , , | Comments (95)

CRU Responds

Aug 11, 2009 – 1:40 PM

CRU has posted up an undated webpage on data availability here , responding to the various recent FOI requests for station data and confidentiality agreements. Here they “list the agreements that we still hold”. I’m preparing a post on this extraordinary document and am posting this thread as a placeholder for now. Instalment 1 (Aug […]

By Stephen McIntyre | Posted in CRU, FOIA | Also tagged , | Comments (174)

Fortress CRU #2: Confidential Agent Ammann

Jun 20, 2008 – 10:24 AM

On March 31, 2008, David Holland sent a letter to Keith Briffa asking about several IPCC issues. In correspondence released from the Hadley Center, Briffa indicated his intention of being unresponsive. On May 15, Briffa sent an unresponsive reply to Holland, following which Holland initiated a FOI request on May 27, 2008 leading to an […]

By Stephen McIntyre | Posted in FOIA, IPCC | Also tagged , , , , | Comments (73)

CRU Reveals Station Identities

Oct 1, 2007 – 4:47 PM

Willis Eschenbach received a message today that the CRU list of stations used is online at http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/landstations/ . The webpage says: The file gives the locations and names of the 4138 stations used at some time (i.e. in the gridding that is used to produce CRUTEM3) during the period from 1851 to 2006. All these […]

By Stephen McIntyre | Posted in CRU, FOIA, Surface Record | Also tagged , | Comments (137)

The New “IPCC Test” for Long-Term Persistence

Jul 4, 2007 – 11:20 AM

In browsing AR4 chapter 3, I encountered something that seems very strange in Table 3.2 which reports trends and trend significance for a variety of prominent temperature series (HAdCRU, HadSST, CRUTem). The caption states: The Durbin Watson D-statistic (not shown) for the residuals, after allowing for first-order serial correlation, never indicates significant positive serial correlation. […]

By Stephen McIntyre | Posted in FOIA, IPCC, SST, Statistics | Also tagged , , | Comments (46)