In recent days, the Australian National University has released the emails at the centre of the death threats controversy. The details are discussed in this useful article at Quadrant. Here's the critical message
ANU Climate Change Institute.
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010.
URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL.Dear All,
Looks like we've had our first serious threat of physical violence. It has come from a participant in [the] deliberative democracy project last weekend. One of the participants left early after he took exception to my talk about climate science...[Deleted’s] exact words were:
"Moreover, before he left, he came to the Fri dinner and showed other participants his gun licence and explained to them how good a sniper he is. Because he didn't attend day 2 he will not be allowed to attend the final day. I will be notifying security to be on hand in case he turns up and causes a problem."
I think the final day is this weekend but I am not sure. Anyway, I've asked XXX to brief the VC [vice-chancellor] and the head of security ASAP. The latter will determine whether this should go to the AFP [Australian Federal Police] or not. [It didn’t]. But in the meantime, we should be careful about anyone we don't know who approaches our offices.
There are some real oddities in the timing, with this alleged incident taking place a full year before the story hit the media. But there is also this comment posted on a thread at Catallaxy Files blog.