claim: The Independent Climate Change Email Review found the CRU scientists were unhelpful and unsympathetic to information requesters and at times broke FoI laws.
evidences.evidence_id: Climatic Research Unit documents:159
evidences.article: Climatic Research Unit documents
evidences.evidence: The Science and Technology Select Committee report blamed the university for mishandling Freedom of Information requests and said it had "found ways to support the culture at CRU of resisting disclosure of information to climate change sceptics".
evidences.votes: SUPPORTS SUPPORTS
evidences.evidence_id: Climatic Research Unit documents:37
evidences.article: Climatic Research Unit documents
evidences.evidence: The e-mail theft highlighted "the harassment that denialists inflict on some climate-change researchers, often in the form of endless, time-consuming demands for information under the US and UK Freedom of Information Acts.
evidences.votes: SUPPORTS REFUTES
evidences.evidence_id: Climatic Research Unit email controversy:256
evidences.article: Climatic Research Unit email controversy
evidences.evidence: Over 95% of the CRU climate data set had been available to the public for several years before July 2009, when the university received numerous FOI requests for raw data or details of the confidentiality agreements from Stephen McIntyre and readers of his Climate Audit blog.
evidences.votes: NOT_ENOUGH_INFO REFUTES
evidences.evidence_id: Climatic Research Unit email controversy:83
evidences.article: Climatic Research Unit email controversy
evidences.evidence: In addition, the investigation would review CRU's compliance with Freedom of Information Act requests and also "make recommendations about the management, governance and security structures for CRU and the security, integrity and release of the data it holds".
evidences.votes: NOT_ENOUGH_INFO NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
evidences.evidence_id: Freedom of Information requests to the Climatic Research Unit:57
evidences.article: Freedom of Information requests to the Climatic Research Unit
evidences.evidence: It blamed the university for mishandling Freedom of Information requests, and said it had “found ways to support the culture at CRU of resisting disclosure of information to climate change sceptics”.
evidences.votes: SUPPORTS NOT_ENOUGH_INFO