Mas sobre Phil Jones..
EL PROFESOR PHIL JONES, DECLARANDO ANTE EL COMITÉ DE CIENCIA Y TECNOLOGÍA DEL PARLAMENTO BRITÁNICO
Hoy en el blog Valdeperrillos se hacen eco de ello de manera extensa..
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"Arropado por el vice-rector de la Universidad de East Anglia (UEA) y otros altos cargos, ha prestado testimonio hoy Phil Jones, ex-director de la Climatic Research Unit (CRU) perteneciente a dicha universidad, en la comisión de ciencia y tecnología de la cámara baja del parlamento británico. Es obvio a partir de la foto que Jones ha envejecido mucho estos tres meses desde que estalló el escándalo conocido como CLIMATEGATE, la filtración de miles de correos entre climatólogos que revelan un aspecto repugnante del mundo de la ciencia, la colusión de intereses, los pactos ilícitos entre climatólogos para engañar, y también para perjudicar a terceros.
Jones ha reconocido que cuando trató de repetir en el año 2008 su estudio - que tanto sirvió para la alarma climática- y que fue originalmente publicado en Nature en el año 1990
•llegué a conclusiones radicalmente diferentes
Ahora ya considera Jones que
•40% del calentamiento observado es un efecto de "isla urbana" de calor
añadiendo
•es algo que debemos considerar
Pues ha tardado dos décadas en considerarlo, y solo forzado por la filtración de los correos, no es de extrañar que el mensaje que acompañaba al fichero comprimido con los correos dijera: ¡ha ocurrido un milagro!.
Jones confirmó al comité que no se compartían con otros científicos los datos brutos de las observaciones, que se encogieron de hombros cuando se los pideron otros colegas y escépticos sobre los resultados publicados, que los árbitros científicos que revisaron los artículos antes de su aceptación para ser publicados en revistas prestigiosas nunca le pidieron confirmara la veracidad de los datos, que no le pidieron los ficheros con los datos, ni tampoco la metodología utilizada, que ignoraron las peticiones formales de tales conjuntos de datos a través del mecanismo de la Ley de Libertad de Información (FOIA, en sus siglas inglesas) que la ley británica facilita, que intentaron silenciar las publicaciones de sus críticos, etc.
¿Su defensa hoy ante el comité parlamentario?
Quizá debió hacerse de otro modo pero era la práctica habitual entre los climatólogosSerá habitual entre los golfos, digo yo, porque los hay honrados.
Jones mueve tanto a la ira como a la hilaridad al exclamar
•Escribí correos espantosos
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Phil Jones survives MPs' grilling over climate emailsCommons committee tiptoed round embattled scientist and sidestepped crucial questions
Fred Pearce guardian.co.uk, Monday 1 March 2010 19.07 GMT Article history
Professor Phil Jones gives evidence to the Commons science and technology committee. Photograph: parliamentlive.tv
Gaunt and nervous, but with his ever-smiling University of East Anglia vice-chancellor beside him, Phil Jones survived his grilling by MPs – probably profoundly grateful that he did not have to face questioning from an earlier witness, the equally gaunt but far from nervous climate sceptic, Lord Lawson.
Jones did his best to persuade the Commons science and technology committee that all was well in the house of climate science. If they didn't quite believe him, they didn't have the heart to press the point. The man has had three months of hell, after all.
Jones's general defence was that anything people didn't like – the strong-arm tactics to silence critics, the cold-shouldering of freedom of information requests, the economy with data sharing – were all "standard practice" among climate scientists. "Maybe it should be, but it's not."
And he seemed to be right. The most startling observation came when he was asked how often scientists reviewing his papers for probity before publication asked to see details of his raw data, methodology and computer codes. "They've never asked," he said.
He gave a little ground, and it was the only time the smile left the face of the vice-chancellor, Edward Acton: "I've written some awful emails," Jones admitted. Nobody asked if, as claimed by British climate sceptic Doug Keenan, he had for two decades suppressed evidence of the unreliability of key temperature data from China.
But for the first time he did concede publicly that when he tried to repeat the 1990 study in 2008, he came up with radically different findings. Or, as he put it, "a slightly different conclusion". Fully 40% of warming there in the past 60 years was due to urban influences. "It's something we need to consider," he said.
Nor did the MPs probe how conflicts of interest have become routine in Jones's world of analysing and reconstructing past temperatures. How, as the emails reveal, Jones found himself intemperately reviewing papers that sought to criticise his own work. And then, should the papers somehow get into print, judging what place they should have in the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), where he and his fellow emails held senior positions.
But the committee will be hard pressed to ignore the issue after the intervention of no less a body than the Institute of Physics. In 13 coruscating paragraphs of written evidence to MPs, it spoke of "prima facie evidence of determined and coordinated refusals to comply with honourable scientific traditions and freedom of information law", "manipulation of the publication and peer review system", and "intolerance to challenge ... which is vital to the integrity of the scientific process." Ouch.
Jones's most tenacious adversaries were largely absent from the hearings, however. No sign of Canadian rottweiler mathematician Steve McIntyre, the arch-villain of dozens of the Climatic Research Unit-crew's emails. Or of Keenan, who accused Jones of fraud in a peer-reviewed journal.
And the MPs let Jones have the last word. "I don't think there is anything [in the emails] that supports the view I've been trying to pervert the peer-review process in any way." With that, he was gone.
Fred Pearce is environment consultant for New Scientist [/color] [/i]
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