An IPCC backchannel ‘cloud’ was apparently established to hide IPCC deliberations from FOIA

October 18th, 2011

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October 17, 2011

CEI has learned of a UN plan recently put in place to hide official correspondence on non-governmental accounts, which correspondence a federal inspector general has already confirmed are subject to FOIA. This ‘cloud’ serves as a dead-drop of sorts for discussions by U.S. government employees over the next report being produced by the scandal-plagued IPCC, which is funded with millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars.

By Christopher Horner, CEI.org for WUWT

Although this is seedy and unlawful at any time, it also goes in the ‘bad timing’ file. Or it’s good timing, depending on one’s perspective.

Just as a brand new book further exposes the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)(which scam I dissected here, and in more disturbing detail here), and on the heels of the weekend surprise of a 2005 memo showing President Obama’s cooling/warming/population zealot of a ‘science czar’ John Holdren is the kind of guy Mitt Romney turns to to develop his ‘environmental’ policies, we’ve exposed the Obama administration and IPCC have cooperated to subvert U.S. transparency laws, run domestically out of Holdren’s White House office.

With this morning’s Freedom of Information Act request, the explaining they have to do must begin by providing the taxpayer certain records regarding — including but not limited to user name and password — for a backchannel ‘cloud’ established to hide IPCC deliberations from FOIA.

The IPCC, you will recall, is Al Gore’s co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. And the host over the years of numerous scandals involving fudged and twisted data, cut-and-pastes from student theses, popular magazine articles and green-group press releases and of course the infamous “hide the decline” in temperatures. This is not just one more scandal, however.

Until the FOI request is posted at CEI.org (later today), here is a snapshot:

As our FOIA request details, the UN informed participants that it was motivated by embarrassing releases of earlier discussions (“ClimateGate” key among them), and to circumvent the problem that national government transparency laws were posing the group.

CEI reminds OSTP that this practice was described as “creat[ing] non-governmental accounts for official business”, “using the nongovernmental accounts specifically to avoid creating a record of the communications”, in a recent analogous situation involving lobbyist Jack Abramoff. CEI expects similar congressional and media outrage at this similar practice to evade the applicable record-keeping laws.

This effort has apparently been conducted with participation — thereby direct assistance and enabling — by the Obama White House which, shortly after taking office, seized for Holdren’s office the lead role on IPCC work from the Department of Commerce. The plan to secretly create a FOIA-free zone was then implemented.

This represents politically assisting the IPCC to enable UN, EU and U.S. bureaucrats and political appointees avoid official email channels for specific official work of high public interest, performed on official time and using government computers, away from the prying eyes of increasingly skeptical taxpayers.

CEI also reminds OSTP of a similar, ongoing effort by the administration to claim that records on U.S. government computers belong to the UN IPCC, refusing to produce them under FOIA. This practice was affirmed in a report by the Department of Commerce’s Office of Inspector General earlier this year.

A d v e r t i s e m e n t

As talks resume next month to forge a successor to the failed Kyoto Protocol, CEI looks forward to OSTP ceasing this unlawful activity, and providing prompt access to the requested records so the taxpayer can know what they, and the IPCC, are up to.

So this morning we requested all relevant records under FOIA, including all records sitting on that server, as they all were provided to U.S. government employees for official purposes. This was filed with OSTP run by controversial ‘science czar” and, we now know, former Mitt Romney ‘climate’ advisor John Holdren. The taxpayer deserves to know about this coordinated effort between OSTP and the IPCC to subvert U.S. law.

Possibly one Republican candidate will call in the next debate for ending US funding of the IPCC, now shown to be actively working (with the Obama White House) to subvert US law. Enough is enough is enough. Possibly Gov. Romney could defend Holdren and the IPCC.

In the meantime, we look for Rep. Henry Waxman’s outrage over Abramoff to prove it was also not political, and come down hard on the practice he so aggressively condemned and pursued, demanding preservation of records, threatening subpoenas, the whole works. With our request, that’s essentially what we’ve done, and we’d appreciate the company. You too, NPR.

Of course, it may not be of interest to the media because it only uncovers unlawful dealings to hide an effort impacting our entire economy, the premise for that “fundamental transformation” of America, with the sleazy lobbying operation being the UN. We’ll wait on OSTP’s response and hope for the best from the Hill and Republican candidates.

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4 Responses to “An IPCC backchannel ‘cloud’ was apparently established to hide IPCC deliberations from FOIA”

Look towards the cloud 😉

Russki Reply:
October 17th, 2011 at 3:29 pm

It was easy to predict that AGW warmists would eventually use the IPCC back channel cloud to hide their criminality. After Climategate the climate alarmist scientists are afraid of losing their cushy jobs so course they hide their communications from FOIA. It really doesn’t matter because the info eventually gets out, making it even worse for these fraudsters and activists pretending to be scientists. AGW is about milking the public for money and promoting an eugenic agenda. Too bad they lack the ability to reason out their junk science, take it to its ultimate conclusions and commit mass suicide; at least we would know they believe their BS and be rid of a parasite class of leeches sucking off the body politic.
The paid climate change denier network has been using the Freedom of Information Act laws to harass scientists and interfere with their personal communications, unfortunately. The paid denier network is looking for any phrase in such communications which can be used as a sound byte, such as “hide the decline” which can be misquoted, selectively quoted out of context, exaggerated, or somehow otherwise distorted and used as a propaganda talking point, IMO.

On one weekend, Phil Jones of the Climate Research Unit received 70 FOIA requests.

How are scientists supposed to work effectively in this climate of harassment, by paid con men?
Leland, if the scientists are not prepared to fill out FIOA requests, they shouldn’t take money from the public. Sorry Bro, but it is called accountability and it is no different if your employer who pays you money asks you to explain what your are doing on their behalf and how you have spent your employers money. If the scientists don’t like it, they can stop taking public money. Also, if they have nothing to hide, then filling out FIOA requests should not be a problem. And, if they wish to communicate personally, they should do so with personal accounts outside of the work environment. You do not have an expectation of privacy if you are using your employers computers for personal matters, which, in itself is a breach of confidence.

The only paid denier network is the AGW’ers, who peddle junk science to rob taxpayers of their money on behalf of their corporate paymasters, such as Goldman Sachs and governments looking for excuses to raise taxes.