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Sunday, 07 February 2010 00:00 |
Editor's note:Just for the record, I would never kill myself, I love life! you can download the 'climategate' emails and documents here.
Richard Girling
The Times Online The scientist at the centre of the “climategate” email scandal has
revealed that he was so traumatised by the global backlash against him
that he contemplated suicide.
Professor Phil Jones said in an exclusive interview with The Sunday
Times that he had thought about killing himself “several times”. He
acknowledged similarities to Dr David Kelly, the scientist who
committed suicide after being exposed as the source for a BBC report
that alleged the government had “sexed up” evidence to justify the
invasion of Iraq.
In emails that were hacked into and seized upon by global-warming
sceptics before the Copenhagen climate summit in December, Jones
appeared to call upon his colleagues to destroy scientific data rather
than release it to people intent on discrediting their work monitoring
climate change.
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