IF ONE of the aims of the persons unknown who stole thousands of emails from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) last November was to bring a fellow human being to his knees, they almost succeeded.
As our exclusive interview shows, Phil Jones, then the director of the unit, has suffered terrible personal torment as a result of the vitriolic campaign against him and his colleagues.
For years, ruthless climate sceptics have harassed scientists, drowning them in freedom of information requests and subjecting them to vicious personal attacks. Climategate was merely the public face of this insurgent…
