"Fortress CRU"

Climate Audit - by Steve McIntyre » Fortress CRU

OK, CRU says that they have “been assured by the persons and organisations giving this information to us that they believe it to be confidential”. OK, what “organisations” are we talking about here? The only organization in question is IPCC, whose procedures require that comments be public. Is IPCC interfering at CRU off the record to prevent CRU from releasing supposedly open comments?

Climate Audit - by Steve McIntyre » Fortress CRU #2: Confidential Agent Ammann

And yet here we have the spectacle of Caspar Ammann, sending expert comments to IPCC author Keith Briffa, stating that he “believes” his expert comments to an IPCC author to have been sent in “confidence”. What a crock.