Phil Jones Steps Down
By Paul Homewood
h/t Dave Ward
http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/environment/uea_s_climatic_unit_director_steps_down_1_4829565
One down!
Climatologist Prof Phil Jones, who was at the centre of the Climategate row over hacked emails, will be succeeded by Prof Timothy Osborn.
Prof Osborn, who has worked at the UEA since 1990, said: “UEA provides a superb environment for climate research and so it is a privilege for me to become the Climatic Research Unit’s next director of research.
“I’m looking forward to leading our pioneering climate research, establishing with greater certainty the details of how and why the Earth’s climate is changing and the consequences for the future.”
http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/environment/uea_s_climatic_unit_director_steps_down_1_4829565
No doubt Phil’s well earned retirement will give ample opportunity to adjust homogenise his golf scores!
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PHIL JONES, arguably one of the godfathers of global warming alarmism and post-normal science should have ‘stepped down’ a long time ago. A disgrace to “the science” …
“Kevin and I will keep [skeptic papers] out [of IPCC] somehow – even if we have to redefine what peer-review literature is” – Phil Jones | Climategate Emails
“I’ve obviously written some awful emails, and I fully admit that..” – Phil Jones comment to the UK Parliamentary Enquiry into Climategate 2009.
Good riddance.
What odds on a ‘gong’ sometime soon??
The trashed reputation of science c/o Phil Jones et al ain’t going anywhere good soon. Disgrace.
You don’t “homogenize” golf scores. You falsify them. Just like temperature records.
No matter how many of them retire on their tax-payer funded golden pensions, there are plenty more in the pipeline to carry on the corrupt “science”. The swamp needs draining, but unfortunately we are still governed by the establishment elite.
1. Now he will have time to learn how Excel calculates trends.
2. What a change from the first director, H.H. Lamb, who had a world class reputation.
2. And deserved it
It is ironic that the place was sponsored in part by oil companies and automobile manufacturers..
East Anglia CRU…
Initial sponsors included British Petroleum, the Nuffield Foundation and Royal Dutch Shell. The Rockefeller Foundation was another early benefactor, and the Wolfson Foundation gave the Unit its current building in 1986.
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If “The Science is settled” why do they need the CRU at all?
While the science is settled, their bank accounts aren’t.
Or, why do we need to fund more research anywhere on a science that is so settled that skeptics are derided and considered criminals?
He was going to get a leaving present but it got deleted in case somebody asked to see it.
GOOD RIDDANCE TO…
The “scientist” who has led CRU, and misled the world for 18 years.
C’mon TIM!!!! Bet you’ll be an Excel-lent leader. No?
“Homogenize his golf-scores”?? The only way Phil Jones knows how to homogenize is to homogenize ever upward, and that’s the wrong way round for a golf-player!
Anyway, good riddance.
From Climategate e-mails….
Phil Jones… Date: Mon Sep 28 10:20:14 2009
“Maybe I’m misinterpreting what you’re saying, but the adjustments won’t reduce the 1940s blip but enhance it. It won’t change the 1940-44 period, just raise the 10 years after Aug 45.”
At 06:25 28/09/2009
Tom Wigley wrote: ”Phil, Here are some speculations on correcting SSTs to partly explain the 1940s warming blip. If you look at the attached plot you will see that the land also shows the 1940s blip (as I’m sure you know). So, if we could reduce the ocean blip by, say, 0.15 degC, then this would be significant for the global mean — but we’d still have to explain the land blip.”
And the raw data at CRU?
“Since the 1980s, we have merged the data we have received into existing series or begun new ones, so it is impossible to say if all stations within a particular country or if all of an individual record should be freely available. Data storage availability in the 1980s meant that we were not able to keep the multiple sources for some sites, only the station series after adjustment for homogeneity issues. We, therefore, do not hold the original raw data but only the value-added (i.e. quality controlled and homogenized) data.”
Source: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/availability/
No panic? not before time…………………. Jonesy at long last for not providing any services to science, is on his bike! hip, hip bloody hoorah!
The trouble is…………
this whacko jock and green-mythologizer…………… is taking over, see how he presents himself – and alack, he is not so meek and mild, certainly is no retiring violet academic, so, yep just another delusional, bombastic climactivist t4889r. Thus, there is no change at the UEA/CRU.
Adjust your eyes and cognitive capacity and then try not to despair:
“I was lead author on Climate Change” ….hmm the Intergovernmentalists IPCC propaganda pamphlets……………..
………………Gadzooks! sitting there is his academic ivory tower and comfortable sinecure, it just fills you with such a hollow feeling – for his lies and specious supposition – we pay this blokes wages and that ain’t right, is it?
If Osborn is so concerned, if he believes all his own climate chimeras, its nonsense then, let him stand on his ideas – in the private sector – see how many people ‘buy’ and in both senses of the word – into Osborn’s alarmist guff.
Why are the public on the hook? Isn’t it time to exorcise the demons of climate rot and its warmist goblins? For sure, the UK taxpayer: shouldn’t be paying his stipend.
It is noted that he “became a Senior Research Associate working with Professors Mike Hulme, Keith Briffa and Phil Jones”. Well I wouldn’t want that on my CV. It is also pertinent that all his “working” life (degree onwards) has been spent at UEA. So he has zero experience of life in the real world. Definitely stuck in his gold-plated ivory tower; unemployable in the competitive real world.
Climactivist sock puppet, he thinks he’s doing a great job and he would, he encounters no real scholarly contrarians………….. hark at ee!
…..wowee!!. Lotus eating, gloriously fixing the nature tricks is a mere algorithm away and nada problema!
Osborn, lives in a sealed bubble, it’s a bit like Norfolk in general, cut off, insular and the rest.
Makes sense though.. They probably couldn’t risk appointing an outsider to the top position. No telling what sort of F***D he might find and be very uncomfortable with.
Employing one of the “family” ensured continuity of scam.
It will be difficult or impossible to repair the damage to the public image of science.
Interesting if predictable comments, firstly about Phil Jones then moving onto Tim Osborn. The latter being particularly partisan and inaccurate – Osborn has a high ranking publication record (you and I might not hold it in high esteem, but then admit it we are somewhat biased) and, almost certainly he has been head hunted by other academic institutions (after all Cambridge made a play for the whole of CRU).
Comments about Norfolk’s insularity also seem outdated. Norwich has been connected to London by a continuous dual carrageway/motorway for some years now. Other comments disparage over 860,000 people.
Much as I despise CRU there are more rational means of broadcasting your displeasure without causing cliched offense that misses its real target.
Pedant alert: “Norwich has been connected to London by a continuous dual carrageway/motorway for some years now.”
Yes, nearly 3. 😀
http://www.buryfreepress.co.uk/news/video-first-cars-travel-on-the-new-102-million-a11-bypass-between-fiveways-roundabout-and-thetford-1-6025121
Here, courtesy of Climategate, is Osborn in one of his more candid moments:
“… remember we have no formal calibration, we’re just counting proxies — I’m still amazed that Science agreed to publish something where the main analysis only involves counting from 1 to 14!”
He was replying to Mann, who was worried that the Osborn & Briffa 2006 paper – a mainstay of the non-scientific “other reconstructions get the same result” Hockey Stick defence – was compromised by the emerging fiasco over Briffa’s Yamal “one-tree” superstick. Rather than state the simple truth that, yes, it was compromised, and leave it at that (take out Yamal and the Western USA foxtail/bristlecone pines from his paper, and the MWP re-appears), Osborn went for the get-out clause, his preferred technique being the straw man: “…But this is fine, since the IPCC AR4 and other assessments are not saying the evidence is 100% conclusive (or even 90% conclusive) but just “likely” that modern (sic) is warmer than the MWP”.
Based on his past behaviour, he appears to be an ideal candidate for the job.
Oh look, today’s offering from WUWT – Phil’s opinion (at that time) of his successor:
Joe Public commented on my “Norwich has been connected to London by a continuous dual carrageway/motorway for some years now.” with “Pedant alert: …..Yes, nearly 3. 😀” illustrating my point for me. I did think that 3 years counted as “some years”.
Some of us in this isolated part of the realm wish it had stayed more remote – keeping it to ourselves.
As an ex-Costessey & Earlham resident, I repeatedly travelled down the original A11 to London.
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From Paul Homewood’s Not a Lot of People Know That.