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• CLIMATE-ROW SCIENTIST AT PARLIAMENTARY INQUIRY

  
  03 March 2010
  

  Phil Jones, head of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia  told the parliamentary inquiry on 1st March, that he did not try to pervert the scientific process. Whilst admitting he “sent some awful emails”,  there was nothing in the hundreds of emails sent, and released on the internet that supported that claim.
  The inquiry repeatedly asked why the CRU failed to make publicly available the raw data and  computer codes needed to reproduce its work. Phil Jones stated that it was not standard practice to do so, but added “Perhaps it should be”.
  The controversy over the emails has resulted in allegations of scientific misconduct and attempts to keep dissenting findings from scientific journals.
  Members of the inquiry said they were not questioning the basic science of climate change, but  the scientific practice behind it.
  The Institute of Physics  have sent written evidence to the inquiry, speaking of determined and co-ordinated refusals to comply with honourable scientific traditions and freedom of information law, manipulation of the publication and peer-review system, and intolerance to challenge.
  The Vice-Chancellor of  the University of East Anglia told the committee he hoped to announce the chair of a new inquiry in to the scientific findings of the CRU this week.  The university has already set up a panel to assess the behaviour of Phil Jones and colleagues, headed by Sir Muir Russell.