The academic at the centre of the 'Climategate' affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble 'keeping track' of the information.
Colleagues say that the reason Professor Phil Jones has refused Freedom of Information requests is that he may have actually lost the relevant papers. | Lost accidently on purpose, one suspects. A highly useful claim now that he's facing legal and university inquiries re: his attempts to obstruct freedom of information requests. |
| If he can't manage his lab properly, he should step down from the position and go back to teaching. This may keep him out of jail, but he is a disgrace to his profession. |
| Dog ate his homework, eh. Does the man understand just how lame that sounds? |
Professor Jones told the BBC yesterday there was truth in the observations of colleagues that he lacked organisational skills, that his office was swamped with piles of paper and that his record keeping is 'not as good as it should be'.
| Demote him to his level of competence, and put someone in charge who can do the science properly. Then in a decade or two we can readdress which direction the climate is headed. |
The data is crucial to the famous 'hockey stick graph' used by climate change advocates to support the theory.
Professor Jones also conceded the possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than now -- suggesting global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon.
| He has to concede that, the records there, both historical and scientific, are irrefutable. |
And he said that for the past 15 years there has been no 'statistically significant' warming.
| How would he know? He has no data, only the faint memory of having had data, once upon a time. |
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