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==CRU email hacking and aftermath==
==CRU email hacking and aftermath==
On 21 November 2009, the Associated Press<ref name='AP 2009-11-21'>{{cite news | first= | last= | coauthors= |authorlink= | title=Hackers leak climate change e-mails from key research unit, stoke debate on global warming | date=2009-11-21 | publisher=Associated Press | url =http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=9145220 | work = | pages = | accessdate = 2009-11-24 | language = }}</ref> confirmed reports of a computer breach at the Climatic Research Unit in which documents and e-mails, including at least one written by Jones,<ref name='CRU-Upate'>{{cite web|url=http://www.uea.ac.uk/mac/comm/media/press/CRUstatements |title=CRU statements |accessdate=2010-01-09 |publisher=University of East Anglia }}</ref> were [[Climatic Research Unit e-mail hacking incident|stolen and posted to the Internet]].<ref name="BBC_stole">{{cite web| title=Inquiry into stolen climate e-mails | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8383713.stm | date=27 November 2009 | first=Roger | last=Harrabin | publisher=[[BBC News]] | accessdate=2009-12-21 }}</ref> One e-mail in particular - referring to a "trick" with data to "hide the decline" - was widely circulated.<ref name='AP 2009-11-21'>{{cite news | first= | last= | coauthors= |authorlink= | title=Hackers leak climate change e-mails from key research unit, stoke debate on global warming | date=2009-11-21 | publisher=Associated Press | url =http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=9145220 | work = | pages = | accessdate = 2009-11-24 | language = }}</ref> In statements issued on 23 and 24 November 2009, Jones said that "[t]he word 'trick' was used here colloquially as in a clever thing to do. It is ludicrous to suggest that it refers to anything untoward",<ref name="UEA 01 Dec">{{cite web |url= http://www.uea.ac.uk/mac/comm/media/press/2009/nov/CRU-update?mode=print |title=CRU Update 1 |publisher=[[University of East Anglia]] – Communications Office |date=23 November 2009 |accessdate=2010-02-08}}</ref> and commented that "to hide the decline" referred to the well known [[divergence problem]] with tree ring proxies. Far from hiding it, CRU had published a number of articles on this problem.<ref name="UEA 24 Nov">{{cite web|url=http://www.uea.ac.uk/mac/comm/media/press/2009/nov/CRUupdate |title=CRU update 2 |publisher=University of East Anglia |date=23 November 2009 |accessdate=2010-02-08}}</ref><!-- these seem unneeded <ref name='AP 2009-11-21'/><ref>{{cite news | first=David | last=Stringer | coauthors= |authorlink= | title=Scientist: Leak of climate e-mails appalling | date= | publisher=Associated Press | url =http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j9MrjlmXzORMlHNvYfE9yAlgtiBwD9C4OSH03 | work = | pages = | accessdate = | language = }}</ref><ref name="CBCNews2009-11-26">{{cite news | date = 26 November 2009 | title = Hackers skewed climate-change emails: scientists | work = [[CBC News]] | publisher = [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] | url = http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/11/26/climate-change-hack.html | accessdate = 3 December 2009 }}</ref>--> On 1 December the UEA announced that Jones would temporarily stand aside as director until the completion of an independent review, resulting from allegations of inappropriate scientific conduct following the hacking and publication of emails from the Unit.<ref name=CRU-Jones>{{cite pressrelease | title=Professor Phil Jones has today announced that he will stand aside as Director of the Climatic Research Unit until the completion of an independent review resulting from allegations following the hacking and publication of emails from the Unit. | url=http://www.uea.ac.uk/mac/comm/media/press/2009/dec/CRUphiljones | date=1 December 2009 | publisher=[[Climatic Research Unit]] at [[University of East Anglia]] | accessdate=2010-01-09 }}</ref>
On 21 November 2009, the Associated Press<ref name='AP 2009-11-21'>{{cite news | first= | last= | coauthors= |authorlink= | title=Hackers leak climate change e-mails from key research unit, stoke debate on global warming | date=2009-11-21 | publisher=Associated Press | url =http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=9145220 | work = | pages = | accessdate = 2009-11-24 | language = }}</ref> confirmed reports of a computer breach at the Climatic Research Unit in which documents and e-mails, including at least one written by Jones,<ref name='CRU-Upate'>{{cite web|url=http://www.uea.ac.uk/mac/comm/media/press/CRUstatements |title=CRU statements |accessdate=2010-01-09 |publisher=University of East Anglia }}</ref> were [[Climatic Research Unit e-mail hacking incident|stolen and posted to the Internet]].<ref name="BBC_stole">{{cite web| title=Inquiry into stolen climate e-mails | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8383713.stm | date=27 November 2009 | first=Roger | last=Harrabin | publisher=[[BBC News]] | accessdate=2009-12-21 }}</ref> One e-mail in particular - referring to a "trick" with data to "hide the decline" - was widely circulated.<ref name='AP 2009-11-21'>{{cite news | first= | last= | coauthors= |authorlink= | title=Hackers leak climate change e-mails from key research unit, stoke debate on global warming | date=2009-11-21 | publisher=Associated Press | url =http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=9145220 | work = | pages = | accessdate = 2009-11-24 | language = }}</ref> In statements issued on 23 and 24 November 2009, Jones said that "[t]he word 'trick' was used here colloquially as in a clever thing to do. It is ludicrous to suggest that it refers to anything untoward",<ref name="UEA 01 Dec">{{cite web |url= http://www.uea.ac.uk/mac/comm/media/press/2009/nov/CRU-update?mode=print |title=CRU Update 1 |publisher=[[University of East Anglia]] – Communications Office |date=23 November 2009 |accessdate=2010-02-08}}</ref> and commented that "to hide the decline" referred to the well known [[divergence problem]] with tree ring proxies. Far from hiding it, CRU had published a number of articles on this problem.<ref name="UEA 24 Nov">{{cite web|url=http://www.uea.ac.uk/mac/comm/media/press/2009/nov/CRUupdate |title=CRU update 2 |publisher=University of East Anglia |date=23 November 2009 |accessdate=2010-02-08}}</ref><!-- these seem unneeded <ref name='AP 2009-11-21'/><ref>{{cite news | first=David | last=Stringer | coauthors= |authorlink= | title=Scientist: Leak of climate e-mails appalling | date= | publisher=Associated Press | url =http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j9MrjlmXzORMlHNvYfE9yAlgtiBwD9C4OSH03 | work = | pages = | accessdate = | language = }}</ref><ref name="CBCNews2009-11-26">{{cite news | date = 26 November 2009 | title = Hackers skewed climate-change emails: scientists | work = [[CBC News]] | publisher = [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] | url = http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/11/26/climate-change-hack.html | accessdate = 3 December 2009 }}</ref>--> On 1 December the UEA announced that Jones would temporarily stand aside as director until the completion of an independent review, resulting from allegations of inappropriate scientific conduct following the hacking and publication of emails from the Unit.<ref name=CRU-Jones>{{cite pressrelease | title=Professor Phil Jones has today announced that he will stand aside as Director of the Climatic Research Unit until the completion of an independent review resulting from allegations following the hacking and publication of emails from the Unit. | url=http://www.uea.ac.uk/mac/comm/media/press/2009/dec/CRUphiljones | date=1 December 2009 | publisher=[[Climatic Research Unit]] at [[University of East Anglia]] | accessdate=2010-01-09 }}</ref>

Critics have charged that the emails showed that Jones appeared to encourage climate scientists to refuse to provide data for [[Freedom of information]] (FOI) requests. Jones denies that that was his intent, stating, regarding the FOI requests, "I regret that I did not deal with them in the right way. In a way, I misjudged the situation." Jones stated that he felt that the FOI requests were attempts to interefere with his team's work, especially because much, if not most, of the data was already available from other sources. Jones denies that any data was destroyed or deleted. Added Jones, "I am obviously going to be much more careful about my emails in future. I will write every email as if it is for publication. But I stand 100% behind the science. I did not manipulate or fabricate any data, and I look forward to proving that to the Sir Muir Russell inquiry."<ref>Girling, Richard, "[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7017905.ece The leak was bad. Then came the death threats]", ''[[The Sunday Times]]'', February 7, 2010.</ref>


==Awards==
==Awards==

Revision as of 00:33, 9 February 2010

For the journalist, see Phil Jones (journalist).

Philip D. Jones (born 1952) is a climatologist at the University of East Anglia, notable for maintaining the time series of the instrumental temperature record;[1] this work figured prominently in the 2001 IPCC Third Assessment Report Summary for Policymakers.[2] He was director of the Climatic Research Unit[3] and a Professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. His research interests are instrumental climate change, palaeoclimatology, detection of climate change and the extension of riverflow records in the UK. He was a contributing author to the IPCC's 2001 Third Assessment Report chapter 12 Detection of Climate Change and Attribution of Causes. Together with Michael E. Mann, he has published on the temperature record of the past 1000 years. In late 2009, certain climate-change-related emails of his became controversial.[4]

Background

Jones holds a BA in Environmental Sciences from the University of Lancaster, and an MSc and PhD from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. His PhD was titled "A spatially distributed catchment model for flood forecasting and river regulation with particular reference to the River Tyne".

CRU email hacking and aftermath

On 21 November 2009, the Associated Press[4] confirmed reports of a computer breach at the Climatic Research Unit in which documents and e-mails, including at least one written by Jones,[5] were stolen and posted to the Internet.[6] One e-mail in particular - referring to a "trick" with data to "hide the decline" - was widely circulated.[4] In statements issued on 23 and 24 November 2009, Jones said that "[t]he word 'trick' was used here colloquially as in a clever thing to do. It is ludicrous to suggest that it refers to anything untoward",[7] and commented that "to hide the decline" referred to the well known divergence problem with tree ring proxies. Far from hiding it, CRU had published a number of articles on this problem.[8] On 1 December the UEA announced that Jones would temporarily stand aside as director until the completion of an independent review, resulting from allegations of inappropriate scientific conduct following the hacking and publication of emails from the Unit.[3]

Critics have charged that the emails showed that Jones appeared to encourage climate scientists to refuse to provide data for Freedom of information (FOI) requests. Jones denies that that was his intent, stating, regarding the FOI requests, "I regret that I did not deal with them in the right way. In a way, I misjudged the situation." Jones stated that he felt that the FOI requests were attempts to interefere with his team's work, especially because much, if not most, of the data was already available from other sources. Jones denies that any data was destroyed or deleted. Added Jones, "I am obviously going to be much more careful about my emails in future. I will write every email as if it is for publication. But I stand 100% behind the science. I did not manipulate or fabricate any data, and I look forward to proving that to the Sir Muir Russell inquiry."[9]

Awards

  • Hans Oeschger Medal from the European Geophysical Society in 2002 "for his remarkable contribution and sustained effort in reconstructing the climate of the last 250 years at the global and regional scales"[10]
  • International Journal of Climatology prize of the Royal Meteorological Society for papers published in the last five years in 2001[11]
  • Outstanding Scientific Paper Award by the Environmental Research Laboratories / NOAA for being a coauthor on the paper "A search for Human Influences on the Thermal Structure of the Atmosphere," by Ben Santer et al. in Nature, 382, 39-46 (1996)

Publications

  • Jones, P. D.; Mann, M. E. (2004), "Climate over past millennia" (PDF), Reviews of Geophysics, 42 (RG2002): 42, doi:10.1029/2003RG000143, retrieved 2007-04-18
  • Mann, Michael E.; Jones, Philip D. (2003), "Global Surface Temperatures over the Past Two Millennia" (PDF), Geophysical Research Letters, 30 (15): CLM 5–1~5–4, doi:10.1029/2003GL017814, retrieved 2007-04-18
  • Jones, P. D.; Moberg, A. (2003), "Hemispheric and Large-Scale Surface Air Temperature Variations: An Extensive Revision and an Update to 2001" (PDF), Journal of Climate, 16 (2): 206–223, doi:10.1175/1520-0442(2003)016<0206:HALSSA>2.0.CO;2, retrieved 2007-04-18
  • Jones, P. D.; Osborn, T.J. (2003), "Estimating Sampling Errors in Large-Scale Temperature Averages" (PDF), Journal of Climate, 10 (10): 2548–2568, doi:10.1175/1520-0442(1997)010<2548:ESEILS>2.0.CO;2, retrieved 2007-04-18 {{citation}}: |first3= missing |last3= (help); |first4= missing |last4= (help)

Notes

  1. ^ Jones, Phil. "Temperature". Climatic Research Unit. Retrieved 23 November 2009. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ "Climate Change 2001: Working Group I: The Scientific Basis". UNEP/GRID-Arendal. Retrieved 23 November 2009.
  3. ^ a b "Professor Phil Jones has today announced that he will stand aside as Director of the Climatic Research Unit until the completion of an independent review resulting from allegations following the hacking and publication of emails from the Unit" (Press release). Climatic Research Unit at University of East Anglia. 1 December 2009. Retrieved 2010-01-09.
  4. ^ a b c "Hackers leak climate change e-mails from key research unit, stoke debate on global warming". Associated Press. 2009-11-21. Retrieved 2009-11-24. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  5. ^ "CRU statements". University of East Anglia. Retrieved 2010-01-09.
  6. ^ Harrabin, Roger (27 November 2009). "Inquiry into stolen climate e-mails". BBC News. Retrieved 2009-12-21.
  7. ^ "CRU Update 1". University of East Anglia – Communications Office. 23 November 2009. Retrieved 2010-02-08.
  8. ^ "CRU update 2". University of East Anglia. 23 November 2009. Retrieved 2010-02-08.
  9. ^ Girling, Richard, "The leak was bad. Then came the death threats", The Sunday Times, February 7, 2010.
  10. ^ "EGS Hans Oeschger Medallist - 2002". European Geosciences Union. Retrieved 23 November 2009.
  11. ^ "Nomination Form for Awards/Prizes of The Royal Meteorological Society". The Royal Meteorological Society. Retrieved 23 November 2009.

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