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'Climategate' scientist attacks bloggers

17 February 2010

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IN A flurry of recent interviews, the scientist at the heart of the “climategate” affair has broken a 12-week silence.

Phil Jones, former director of the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit in the UK, has spoken about the controversy that followed publication of emails stolen from the CRU. He admitted to the journal Nature that his failure to keep records of the locations of weather stations used in a major study was “not acceptable”. In effect, Jones conceded that climate sceptic Doug Keenan had been…

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