No Mea Culpas From Phil Jones Over "ClimateGate"

Monday, November 15, 2010 - 13:31 in Earth & Climate

Phil Jones, head of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, had a life-changing event occur almost one year ago.   On November 19th, 2009, a thousand e-mail messages and documents, many his correspondence, were released to the public. Many of the same people who extol Wikileaks today stressed that those messages were stolen, as if the process vindicated the content (would it do so if damning emails had been from Exxon or BP?) but that was small solace because climate science was already suffering backlash and climate science detractors had a field day alleging the entire process was tainted. read more

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