Q&A: Professor Phil Jones

In a BBC interview Jones agreed that two periods in recent times had experienced similar warming to today, and he agreed that the debate had not been settled over whether the Medieval Warm Period was warmer than the current period. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Walter Cox - Feb 15, 2010 - 10:29 PM PST
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Walter Cox
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by Walter Cox - Feb. 17, 2010

This BBC article reports verbatim the statements offered by Dr. Phil Jones, director the the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, in response to specific questions. Some of Dr. Jones' answers were expanded for publication--one assumes in order to clarify context.

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by Dwight Rousu - Feb. 17, 2010

Ye gawds, it sounds like the inquisition. The allegations of the deniers are put to Jones, and he answers them directly, but the explanations here are only moderately clear and more related to the spurious charges than to depth of the science.

I’m 100% confident that the climate has warmed. As to the second question, I would go along with IPCC Chapter 9 – there’s ... More »

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