Climate scientist admits sending 'awful emails' but denies perverting peer review

Guardian ^ | Monday 1 March 2010 18.27 GMT | David Adam, environment correspondent

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In his first public appearance since the beginning of the emails row Phil Jones tells MPs he will be cleared of accusations

Professor Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Research Unit, gives evidence to the science and technology committee. Photograph: parliamentlive.tv

The scientist at the centre of a media storm over global warming research admitted today he had sent "awful emails" but said he expected to be cleared of accusations that he tried to pervert the scientific process.

Phil Jones, head of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, told a parliamentary inquiry that there was nothing in the hundreds of emails released on to the internet last year that supported the claims.

"I was just commenting that those papers weren't very good," Jones said. "There is nothing that [shows] that me or the CRU were trying to pervert the peer review process in any way."

In his first public appearance since the emails were released in November, Jones faced repeated questions about the way the CRU failed to make publicly available the raw data and computer codes needed to reproduce its work. "It is not standard practice to provide codes and methods," he said. "Perhaps it should be."

He said much of the raw data were available from other sources, such as Nasa, and that there was nothing to stop somebody repeating his calculations and constructing their own temperature records.

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Just trying to catch everything coming out of the UK press,...since our papers are reporting as little as possible.

[Berlin_Freeper]

He looks like he aged a lot.

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...and constructing their own temperature records.

LOL - That's quite a poor choice of words.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I just posted this,,,quite a good Technical tutorial on some of the science issues:

Editorial: The Great Global Warming Hoax? ( Some good technical facts )

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Thanx !

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

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Jones is a barefaced liar guilty of attempting cold-blooded totalitarian-takeover murder against the all of Western Civilization and the subsequent murder of hundreds of millions, if not billions of people. He - and all those of his cabal - should be convicted for crimes against humanity, and hanged.

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yeah like we should trust him at this point

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bttt

now on drudge

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Alinsky: Deny, Deny, Deny