UK's Met Office working behind the scenes with Phil as early as 1996

ClimateGate FOIA grepper! - wasted

Phil
Remember all the fun we had last year over 1995 global temperatures, with early release of information (via Oz), "inventing" the December monthly value, letters to Nature etc etc?

I think we should have a cunning plan about what to do this year...

1. We feed this selectively to Nick Nuttall (who has had this in the past and seems now to expect special treatment) so that he can write an article for the silly season. We could also give this to Neville Nicholls??
2. We explain why the globe is 0.23k (or whatever the final figure is) cooler than 95 (NAO reversal, slight La Nina)... I know it sound a bit cloak-and-dagger but its just meant to save time in the long run.

Hat tip: AJ