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In this country, even a global warming denialist with a carbon fetish and bad intentions has the right to see the inner workings of government.
Or, at least, he should.
When leaked e-mails recently exposed talk of manipulating scientific evidence on global warming, Kevin Trenberth, head of the Climate Analysis Section at The National Center for Atmospheric Research, argued that skeptics and other evildoers had cherry-picked and presented his comments out of context.
To rectify this injustice, I sent Trenberth (and NCAR) a Freedom of Information Act request...
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I know that at any time my place of work can exercise its right to go through any and all of my e-mails. I bear that in mind with every e-mail I compose. Trenberth's home e-mail is his own business; his business e-mail is not. It is an arrogant mistake for him to assume that any of his business e-mail is private. I'm sure someone in IT could disabuse him of that notion in short order; even pointing out a document or point in time when the true ownership of his business e-mail was communicated to him.
I would have no qualms about the release of my own business e-mails. Are Trenberth's reservations due simply to arrogance, or is there some fear mixed in?