‘Climategate’ scientist attacks bloggers

February 17, 2010 | Source: New Scientist Short Sharp Science

Controversial climate scientist Phil Jones admitted to the journal Nature that his much-criticized failure to keep records about the location of Chinese weather stations, used in a major paper constructing a global record of thermometer measurements over the past 160 years, was “not acceptable.”

In effect, Jones conceded that British climate skeptic Doug Keenan had been right in some of his criticisms of a 20-year-old paper that had used the Chinese data in an analysis that ruled out local urban influences as a significant factor in global warming, and that he might submit a correction to Nature.