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| George Monbiot initially called for Jones to resign after the release of the emails, stating that the emails contained ''"evidence... of attempts to prevent scientific data from being released, and even to destroy material that was subject to a freedom of information request."''<ref>, George Monbiot, ], Nov. 23, 2009</ref>. Later, Monbiot reiterated the criticism but retracted the call for resignation. | George Monbiot initially called for Jones to resign after the release of the emails, stating that the emails contained ''"evidence... of attempts to prevent scientific data from being released, and even to destroy material that was subject to a freedom of information request."''<ref>, George Monbiot, ], Nov. 23, 2009</ref>. Later, Monbiot reiterated the criticism but retracted the call for resignation. | ||
| == BBC interview == | |||
| Professor Jones was by BBC's environment analyst Roger Harrabin in February 2010. Dr. Jones states that the global warming has not been large enough between 1995 and 2009 to be statistically significant at the 95% significance level. In answer to the question "Do you agree that from 1995 to the present there has been no statistically-significant global warming", Dr. Jones answered: "Yes, but only just. I also calculated the trend for the period 1995 to 2009. This trend (0.12C per decade) is positive, but not significant at the 95% significance level. The positive trend is quite close to the significance level. Achieving statistical significance in scientific terms is much more likely for longer periods, and much less likely for shorter periods." | |||
| In answer to the question "Do you agree that from January 2002 to the present there has been statistically significant global cooling?", Dr. Jones admitted that temperatures have dropped in this period: " The trend this time is negative (-0.12C per decade), but this trend is not statistically significant." | |||
| Dr. Jones remains confident that the climate has warmed since the 1950s due to human activity. | |||
| == Awards and Recognitions == | == Awards and Recognitions == | ||
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| * by BBC's environment analyst Roger Harrabin | |||
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| * on the ] controversy | * on the ] controversy | ||
| * : ''Climate crisis: All change in the UK?'' | * : ''Climate crisis: All change in the UK?'' | ||
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For the journalist, see Phil Jones (journalist).Philip D. Jones (born 1952) is a climatologist at the University of East Anglia, where he works as a Professor in the School of Environmental Sciences. 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 research interests include instrumental climate change, palaeoclimatology, detection of climate change and the extension of riverflow records in the UK. He has also published papers on the temperature record of the past 1000 years.
He is notable for maintaining the time series of the instrumental temperature record. This work was featured prominently in both the 2001 and 2007 IPCC reports, where he was a contributing author to Chapter 12, Detection of Climate Change and Attribution of Causes, of the Third Assessment Report and a Coordinating Lead Author of Chapter 3, Observations: Surface and Atmospheric Climate Change, of the AR4.
Climate Emails Controversy
He headed the UEA's Climatic Research Unit jointly with Jean Palutikof from 1998–2004 and by himself from 2004. He temporarily stepped aside from this position in November 2009 following a controversy over e-mails which hackers acquired and published. The House of Commons' Science and Technology Select Committee inquiry concluded that there was no case against Jones for him to answer, and said he should be reinstated in his post. He was reinstated in July 2010 with the newly-created role of Director of Research, after a further review led by Sir Muir Russell found no fault with the "rigour and honesty as scientists" of Jones and his colleagues, while finding that they had not embraced the "spirit of openness" of the Freedom of Information Act. The university said that the new position was not a demotion and would enable Jones to concentrate on research and "reduce his responsibilities for administration."
George Monbiot initially called for Jones to resign after the release of the emails, stating that the emails contained "evidence... of attempts to prevent scientific data from being released, and even to destroy material that was subject to a freedom of information request.". Later, Monbiot reiterated the criticism but retracted the call for resignation.
Awards and Recognitions
- ISI highly cited researcher.
- Hans Oeschger Medal from the European Geophysical Society in 2002.
- International Journal of Climatology prize of the Royal Meteorological Society for papers published in the last five years in 2001.
- 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).
Selected 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.; Briffa, K.R. (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.
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Notes
- Jones, Phil. "Temperature". Climatic Research Unit. Retrieved 23 November 2009.
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- http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/ipcc/wg1-4ar-authorlist.pdf
- "History of the Climatic Research Unit". Climatic Research Unit. Retrieved 2009-12-18.
- "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.
- Ben Webster (March 31, 2010). "Climate-row professor Phil Jones should return to work, say MPs – Times Online". The Times. Retrieved 2010-04-02.
- Michael McCarthy (8 July 2010). "'Conspiracy theories finally laid to rest' by report on leaked climate change emails – Climate Change, Environment". The Independent. Retrieved 2010-07-08.
- Global warming rigged? Here's the email I'd need to see, George Monbiot, The Guardian, Nov. 23, 2009
- "ISI record". Hcr3.isiknowledge.com. Retrieved 2010-07-08.
- "EGS Hans Oeschger Medallist – 2002". European Geosciences Union. Retrieved 23 November 2009.
- "Nomination Form for Awards/Prizes of The Royal Meteorological Society". The Royal Meteorological Society. Retrieved 23 November 2009.
External links
- Home page
- BBC article on the temperature record of the past 1000 years controversy
- BBC article: Climate crisis: All change in the UK?
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