From a University of East Anglia Press Release
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.
Professor Jones said: “What is most important is that CRU continues its world leading research with as little interruption and diversion as possible. After a good deal of consideration I have decided that the best way to achieve this is by stepping aside from the Director’s role during the course of the independent review and am grateful to the University for agreeing to this. The Review process will have my full support.”
Vice-Chancellor Professor Edward Acton said: “I have accepted Professor Jones’s offer to stand aside during this period. It is an important step to ensure that CRU can continue to operate normally and the independent review can conduct its work into the allegations.
“We will announce details of the Independent Review, including its terms of reference, timescale and the chair, within days. I am delighted that Professor Peter Liss, FRS, CBE, will become acting director.”
An AP story is here
h/t to Jeff Id of The Air Vent
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Will that be a peer-reviewed investigation?
WOO HOO !!
A small step for mankind……………..
Good news travels fast
Define Independant Review…..
Great time of year for him to gt acquainted with his garden. That’ll learn him something about global warming. It’s bloody cold in the UK tonight.
PARTY TIME!
Goal!
In other words he’ll step down till they exonerate him of all wrongdoing with their investigation?
Hide the decline!
The cracks revealed in the facade of the consensus begin to deepen into actual fractures.
Al baby, Monckton is coming for you and it ain’t to debate anymore! http://pathstoknowledge.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/too-late-for-resignations-in-climategate-as-requests-for-charages-are-being-filed
That is really good news.
Will the investigation be genuine?
Stay tuned!
Cheers!
Meet the new boss…
http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/people/facstaff/lissp
AP story link isn’t functioning
As the old golf joke goes, I recommend Phil Jones give his work a three-week layoff, then quit.
Whitewash on the way. If the media have any focus at all it’ll focus on him, leading it away from the fact that they’re all charlatans.
Is there anyone implicated in the emails, who is also on the agenda at Copenhagen?
Steps aside not steps down; presumably on full pay. What about his acolytes? What about Dr Mann?
Have the Brits still got the pillory?
Does anybody here know if UEA has any administrators with guts? Or is a whitewash preordained? I’m sure they’re pretty happy with all the loot Jones has been pulling in with his ‘research’ over the last decade.
All the evidence has been destroyed already, so its a wise move to act like you are gonna be all noble and step aside till they find nothing.
That (and the review of Michael Mann at Penn State) should clear the air for Copenhagen. (Not.)
But, as said above, “one small step.”
I’m with Mike Smith here. I don’t have too much hope for an honest ‘independent’ investigation.
Oh he’ll be back,even if they have to redefine what ‘independent investigation’ means.
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.
What is missing here?
until the completion = makes no mention of abiding by the results/decision of the investigation. Is this an omission?
Calls for a clarification.
Please specify what will happen if the investigation uncovers wrongdoing.
This should wake up some of the media remaining on the sidelines.