Phil Jones, the CRU Director has stepped down pending an investigation into whether he exagerrated global warming:
Prof Jones said: ”What is most important is that CRU continues its world-leading research with as little interruption and diversion as possible.
”After a good deal of consideration I have decided that the best way to achieve this is by stepping aside from the director’s role during the course of the independent review and am grateful to the University for agreeing to this. The Review process will have my full support.”
Professor Peter Liss will become acting director while the review is conducted, the university said.
Vice-Chancellor Professor Edward Acton said: ”I have accepted Professor Jones’s offer to stand aside during this period. It is an important step to ensure that CRU can continue to operate normally and the independent review can conduct its work into the allegations.”
It’ll be interesting to see how much MSM coverage this gets, because this is real news.
Michael Mann at Penn State faces his own investigation.
One by one, the dominos fall…
So Phil Jones stepped down as
DirectorHigh Priest of the Universtiy of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit pending an investigation. Well, if his GW warming projections don’t hold up, at least he knows that his legacy will live on with his groundbreaking New & Improved CRU Scientific Method. I was able to reverse engineered the East Anglia CRU Scientific Methodology from the procedures documented in the purloined e-mails and code. It is clear to me that they have built on the work of maverick chemist Theodore Hapner, who revolutionized thinking about the scientific method in 2006. Godspeed Phil Jones.How long do suppose it will be before someone in Progressive blogosphere refers to Dr. Jones as a ‘martyr’? I’ll take the under on tomorrow.