He asserted that “the assault on climate science has grown broader and more sophisticated”. In support of this, he cited the Climate Science Legal Defence Fund, which warned that sweeping and “invasive open records requests” to harass and intimidate and “other misuse of the legal system” continue to “threaten climate scientists’ ability to freely conduct research and openly share it with the public”.

Ah yes, they're being intimidated away from openly sharing their data with the public by... Open records requests.

Yeah, that's about the level of reasoning I've come to expect from the most lauded of climate scientists.