My hubby says.....
As a scientist, but not a practicing scientist, because I'm not earning money to falsify anything, I can tell you there is no such thing as a "trick" in science. Unless you're unable to discern what is going on, and you might be talking to a fellow scientist, and say: "by what trick did that happen, I don't know but would like to understand."
That's the only circumstance where you could refer to a trick in science. So to change data by way of a trick is totally outside the realm of serious science.
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Professor Phil Jones
Professor Phil Jones
E-mail: p.jones@uea.ac.uk
I am the Director of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) and a Professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. I was born in Surrey in 1952 and completed a B.A. in Environmental Sciences at the University of Lancaster in 1973 and an M.Sc. (1974) and Ph.D. (1977) at the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. My Ph.D. was titled "A spatially distributed catchment model for flood forecasting and river regulation with particular reference to the River Tyne."
My research interests are in instrumental climate change, palæoclimatology, detection of climate change and the extension of riverflow records in the UK using long rainfall records. I am principally known for the time series of hemispheric and global surface temperatures, which I update on a monthly basis. I have numerous research papers over the last 20 years and these are available in the CRU Publications List.
I have coedited four books: "Climate Since A.D. 1500" (with Ray Bradley) published by Routledge in 1992 and in paperback in 1995; "Climatic Variations and Forcing Mechanisms of the Last 2000 Years" (with Ray Bradley and Jean Jouzel) published by Springer-Verlag in 1996; "History and Climate: Memories of the Future" (with Astrid Ogilvie, Trevor Davies and Keith Briffa) published by Kluwer in 2001 and "Improved Understanding of Past Climatic Variability from Early European Instrumental Sources (with Dario Camuffo) published by Kluwer in 2002.
I have been a fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society since 1992 and was on the Editorial Committee of the International Journal of Climatology until 1995. I am currently on the editorial board of Climatic Change. I am an elected member of Academia Europaea since 1998 and a member of the American Meteorological Society since 2001.
I was jointly awarded the Hugh Robert Mill Medal in 1995 by the Royal Meteorological Society for work on UK Rainfall Variability, and in 1997 the Outstanding Scientific Paper Award by the Environmental Research Laboratories / NOAA for being a coauthor on the paper "A search for Human Influences on the Thermal Structure of the Atmosphere," by Ben Santer et al. in Nature, 382, 39-46 (1996). More recently I was awarded the first Hans Oesschger Medal from the European Geophysical Society (now the European Geosciences Union) in 2002 and the International Journal of Climatology prize of the Royal Meteoological Society for papers published in the last five years, also in 2002. |
