Professor Boulton’s ICCER Correspondence

The request was refused by University of Edinburgh.

Dear Ms Graham,

Professor Geoffrey Boulton is according to the University website a member of staff and is one of two Edinburgh Professors to serve as a member of Sir Muir Russell’s ICCER team which looked into the Climategate matter.

On 3 September 2010 I sent a copy of an email to Professor Boulton’s University email address.

Please confirm that this email is held the University or has been held by the University.

On 25 February 2010 I sent a file to the Russell Review Team, which Sir Muir Russell recently assured the House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology that his Review team went into “pretty carefully”. The file name is “Holland ICCER Submission.pdf” and is 312,460 bytes in length, probably reported as 306 KB.

Please confirm that a copy of this file is held or has been held by the University.

On 6 May 2010 Professor Boulton sent a letter to Professor Keith Briffa at the University of East Anglia with an Annex that included some text from my ICCER submission file.

Please let me have an EXACT copy of the letter and Annex as it was sent.

On 19 May 2010 Professor Briffa sent Professor Boulton a reply to his letter of 6 May with an Annex that also contained some text from my ICCER submission file. A version of Briffa’s reply is published at the ICCER web site but its electronic properties indicate that it was last modified on 7 July 2010 and is not therefore the original document.

Please send me an EXACT copy of Professor Briffa’s reply as received by Professor Boulton.

Please supply me with copies of ALL Professor Boulton’s correspondence, notes, legal advice and any other information in any form pertaining to the Russell review that relates to, or refers to, my ICCER submission or the matters discussed therein.

Please note that there is now substantial case law in Decision Notices and Tribunal Decisions that leave no room for doubt that information on climate change, its assessment, the IPCC process and procedures, and handling of environmental requests is subject to the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004.

Yours sincerely

David Holland

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The University of Edinburgh deny that they hold any information. This request has in effect been consolidated with a similar request for information relating to Professor Clarke's involvement in the Russell Review. The University claim all correspondence was deleted soon after the Review Report was published.
The matter is now being investigated by OSIC.