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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Folks, you seemed to have missed the message hidden in the statements by
Phil Jones, Edward Acton, any other UAE personalities, Lord Stern, or other
quasi-government types:
Phil Jones is ONLY temporarily stepping down as the DIRECTOR of CRU. He’s not
off the staff or banished from the facility. He will still have access to the CRU
computers for data”processing”, emails, and blogging.
He still had his grad assistants. He can still go to Copenhagen to represent
Hadley/CRU… just not as the Director.
Wake up and smell the onions !
Maybe he’ll talk, turn states evidence like the Mafia used to do to save his skin!
He’s done for and the bbc didn’t mention it just a report on antarctic ice melt. They couldn’t mention it because they haven’t publicised cru whistleblower at all. Going to need some big napkins to wipe away the egg on their faces. One other thing the developing world will take what they can get from copenhagen before the wheels come off. They thought they had the winning hand but the river card has screwed them
KlausB (13:50:26): yep, but fortunately we have our good operators here
Indeed. We are fortunate with Anthony Watts and his team of reviewers. Really this is about honesty vs. dishonesty; it’s not an exaggeration to state that people here at WUWT are more interested and fascinated by science itself than trying to benefit anything from science.
Michael says:
Yes. Bing no longer suggests it even if you type in all 11 characters. It seems to be being purposely removed.
[how did this anti semitic rant make it through the other moderators. Dudes! ~ ctm]
Google News UK showing loads of links already.
http://news.google.co.uk/news/more?pz=1&cf=all&cf=all&ncl=dL8TgLSwmqdNKnMNXUJtMCPiEF0jM
O/T:
Vukcevic mentioned the magnetic field in his post.
I saw a programme about magnetic polar flip and what they said was that prior to such an event the Earths magnetic field goes into flux.
The footage of a wobbly hole in the magnetic field above the northern hemosphere looked a lot like the wobbly hole which used to be shown in relation to the missing ozone layer.
I recently learned on another programme that ozone can be destroyed by sunlight when not protected by the Magnetic shield.
I never hear of our magnetic field or its fluctuations in any science to do with climate.
Is there a reason?
As I said before I flunked school so forgive me if it’s a stupid question.
Bull excrement.
Whitewash on the way. Either the “review” will be as independent as my foot is from my ankle, or it will be some one else from the climate change vested interests community.
Business as usual will continue. I.E. data will be kept hidden, consensus will be generated by rigging the process, results will be made up, genuinely independent review will be rebuffed, the mainstream press will genuflect, and the crooks will keep their sinecures in return for feeding the socialism machine.
A rather apt quote from Bertrand Russell:
‘What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires — desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.’
Sums up warmist and sceptic points of view i think.
From Carnoustie with AGW of minus 6 degrees this morning. It should be good news about Phil Jones stepping aside.
Just watched the 10 oclock news on the Biased Broadcasting Service – sorry that should read British (damn fingers!). Nary a mention of Climategate. They did have one David Schuchman interviewing (Lord) Sterne giving it the usual Hurricanes, rising sea levels millions threatened, melting icecaps – the full works. An obviously distressed reporter then interviewed a few normal people who told him they were not members of the new faith. Finally he asked the head of the firm which conducted a recent poll who told him the results were 55% non believers, 41% believers. Schuchman looked a beaten man.
We have a ‘thing’ here called Teletext on freeview TV.
I keyed in local news for East (England) and found (4th item down – below ‘man bites dog) the following:
“The research Director at the centre of a row over Climate Change data said he would stand down from the post while there is an independant review.
Prof Phil Jones,director of the Norwich based UEA CRU, said he stands by his data.
Sceptics claim the e-mails, leaked after a UEA server was hacked into, showed data was being manipulated.
The hacking of the computer is being investigated by Norfolk Police.”
Could not find any mention of the story on either Sky News of ITV.
So maybe we should not count our chickens just yet.
Can’t believe that you media hotshots have not found the BBC report of Phil Jones’ stepping aside! Just go to the BBC main web page; then look for the UK news, then find the ‘England’ section, then look at the drop down bar for the regional news, and scroll down until you find ‘Norfolk’.
Where else would they put a story of international significance?
Just to make it easy for y’all
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/8389727.stm
I noticed that media discussion of the UEA CRU emails seem just as often say “leaked” or “whistleblower” as they do “hacked”.
But, most US media seem to use “hacked” and less so “leaked”.
So, can some of the WUWT commentors from Britain give me any update on the “leaked”/”whistleblower’ view?
John
Follow the money!
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From Phillip Stott’s blog, http://web.mac.com/sinfonia1/Clamour_Of_The_Times/Clamour_Of_The_Times/Entries/2009/12/1_Can_You_Believe_It_Alleged_Carbon_Fraud_in…Denmark.html
Can You Believe It? Alleged Carbon Fraud in…Denmark
Tuesday, 1 December 2009
“Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,/ Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,/ Whiles, like a puff’d and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads./ And recks not his own rede.” [Ophelia, Act I, Scene III, ‘The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark’. Photo: wind turbines off Copenhagen, by Leonard G., reproduced here under the Creative Commons ShareAlike License 1.0]
First, there were those infamous hacked e-mails from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia. Now, a mere seven days before the Copenhagen Conference on climate change, this breaking news story takes the breath away. The whole ‘global warming’ shambles is falling apart. Today, The Copenhagen Post declares: “Denmark Rife With CO2 Fraud”:
“Denmark is the centre of a comprehensive tax scam involving CO2 quotas, in which the cheats exploit a so-called ‘VAT carrousel’, reports Ekstra Bladet newspaper.
Police and authorities in several European countries are investigating scams worth billions of kroner, which all originate in the Danish quota register. The CO2 quotas are traded in other EU countries.”
And the fraud may be of massive proportions:
“Ekstra Bladet reporters have found examples of people using false addresses and companies that are in liquidation, which haven’t been removed from the register.
One of the cases, which stems from the Danish register, involves fraud of more than 8 billion kroner. This case, in which nine people have been arrested, is being investigated in England.”
What can one say?
We all knew from the start that carbon trading could prove, by its very nature, a crooks’ charter. But such an allegation relating to Denmark, of all places, at the precise moment of the Copenhagen Conference, where such cap-and-trade measures will be at the forefront of debate, must have the Little Mermaid crying so much that sea-levels may indeed rise.
Simply staggering! How long can this ‘global warming’ nonsense be tolerated? I’m off for a strong, wee dram.
Can’t be deleted out all the time sorry. Moderation totally fine but all spam no way. New Id, New IP, New country from tomorrow. Love the site BTW.
Bye
This evening (UK time) I was in an IM conversation with three good friends of mine about an entirely unrelated subject (classic and almost-classic cars). My friends are Professors, in engineering (2) and orthopaedics (1).
The topic of Phil Jones came up when news of his “stepping aside” broke.
All three Professors agreed that he’s committed academic suicide. There is no way back into Academia for him. Ever.
Remember that this is happening in England. Our society might be ravaged by a socialist government but certain standards are still maintained, especially by honest gentlemen.
Why not just fire the bast___ outright? What’s with this temporary BS?
Perhaps a Whitewash wouldn’t be such a bad thing!
When Nobel prize winner Steven Chu suggested that we could solve gw by painting buildings white, he was excoriated by Viscount Moncton. Not for the science, of course, our blue-blooded Christopher knows all about the effects of an increased albedo, but by ruthless use of “those pesky numbers” as John Brignell host of that most excellent site numberwatch.co.uk might say.
In simple terms using paint was economically unviable!
Whitewash, OTOH may be just the ticket. It reflects light well, it is cheaper to manufacture than paint, mostly harmless, easy to apply but, most importantly, has a high Carbon content.
In other words Whitewatch is a Carbon sink sans pareil!!!!
Not only will it suck up Carbon from fossil fuel energy generation but it will
make Steven Chu a happy man!
Da*n it, give Phil a big brush, a bucket of Whitewash and he can look forward to years of gainful employment saving the Planet, supplementing his pension and chewing the fat with his old buddies!
Now Watts Up With That?
Hopefully this is the first step in the UEA finally realising that the Climate Research Unit at the university was not producing sound science and acts to save its reputation.
The Mike Hulme article on the BBC website http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8388485.stm is the first serious comment from the UEA (Mike Hulme being a scientist at that university) on Climategate. It looks like some searching questions must be asked.
Being located in the UK, I see the Times newspaper has a guest article from a green activist on the online version tonight (by Joss Garman a spokesman for Green Peace and the founder of Plane Stupid (an anti-aviation organisation)). It is possible that an author from this website could get an article placed in the Times to put the sceptical argument across? It is critical with Copenhagen just a week away when the treasonous Labour government will sign anything.
“Does anybody here know if UEA has any administrators with guts?”
“Anything good further down?…”
Several of you said you couldn’t make it any further, perhaps you should have!
Here’s a few snippets from the UEA’s press release linked at the top.
“The publication of a selection of the emails and data stolen from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) has led to some questioning of the climate science research published by CRU and others. There is nothing in the stolen material which indicates that peer-reviewed publications by CRU, and others, on the nature of global warming and related climate change are not of the highest-quality of scientific investigation and interpretation. CRU’s peer-reviewed publications are consistent with, and have contributed to, the overwhelming scientific consensus that the climate is being strongly influenced by human activity.”
“The publication of a selection of stolen data is the latest example of a sustained and, in some instances, a vexatious campaign”
“One has to wonder if it is a coincidence that this email correspondence has been stolen and published at this time. This may be a concerted attempt to put a question mark over the science of climate change in the run-up to the Copenhagen talks.”
“A selection of these emails have been taken out of context and misinterpreted as evidence that CRU has manipulated climate data to present an unrealistic picture of global warming.”
Go on – scroll down and see that absolutely nothing has changed at the UEA.
The local paper still hasn’t given it more than the briefest of mentions. They now have former M.P, and pro warmist, Ian Gibson writing for them – a coincidence?
I think that UEA will take the ‘temporary’ part more seriously than the ‘climategate’ part. This is likely just a formality. Unless Phil’s grant funding starts to go pear-shaped because of this.
Professor Jones’s comment on the BBC website:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/8389727.stm
At the time that the theft of the data was revealed climate sceptics picked up on the word “trick” in one e-mail from 1999 and talk of “hiding the decline”.
Professor Jones said the e-mail was genuine but taken “completely out of context”.
He released a copy of the actual e-email which reads: “I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.”
Professor Jones said: “The first thing to point out is that this refers to one diagram – not a scientific paper.
SOME DIAGRAM!!
…… in an odd way this is cheering news…
Our Gav, lovely boy, does not find this news cheering.
We are a little bit worried with all the travelling we do to exotic places I may have to give up all those lovely hotels we used to stay in.
Oh I dunno, I am sure it’ll all work out ok in the end after all our Gav knows so many clever people . Look at that lovely Mike Mann with his clever party tricks saw him at Halloween, Trick or Cheat I said, seemed a bit annoyed, can’t take a joke see.
Ed Scott (14:55:39) :
Ahhhh, so Denmark is “ground zero” of the scam. No wonder they want to meet there to coordinate their next moves.
The fact they are making arrests sounds promising, as long as they are big fish, and that will interfere with the upcoming fixer meeting.