Climategate 2.0: Systematic deletion of e-mails

By Steve Milloy —— Bio and Archives November 22, 2011

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Phil Jones’ order to delete e-mails to avoid Freedom of Information requests was certainly executed.

From the Climategate 2.0 collection (#5267), Tim Osborn gives instructions for complying with Phil Jones’ directive: Hi Mike, in looking further afield than just my files, I see some other files that are no longer needed. Please can you delete: [1]ftp://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/people/craigwallace/ folder and its content (an old word doc) as I know these aren’t needed any more. I’d also guess that [2]ftp://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/people/davidviner/ folder and its contents can go (files all dated >8 years ago). Effie’s folder is also empty. mickkelly contains only holiday snaps! Cheers Tim

At 10:10 31/07/2009, you wrote: Dear all, After the recent problems with ClimateAudit, Phil has asked for all unnecessary files to be purged from the FTP server. You have a directory in /cru/ftp1/people. Please could you take a look to see what files need to remain there? If you would like assistance with this, let me know. Please confirm by email when you’ve done it, so I can cross you off the list. thanks Mike