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IN A flurry of recent interviews, the scientist at the heart of the 鈥渃limategate鈥� affair has broken a 12-week silence.
Phil Jones, former director of the University of East Anglia鈥檚 in the UK, has spoken about the controversy that followed publication of emails stolen from the CRU. that his failure to keep records of the locations of weather stations used in a major study was 鈥渘ot acceptable鈥�. In effect, Jones conceded that climate sceptic had been right in some of his criticisms of the paper, which ruled out local urban influences as a significant factor in global warming.
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Jones said he may submit a correction to Nature, but nonetheless hit back at bloggers and other critics for 鈥渉ijacking the peer-review process. If they want to criticise, they should write their own papers,鈥� he said.