Philip D. Jones

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Philip D. Jones ( Philip Douglas "Phil" Jones; * 1952 ) is a British climatologist at the University of East Anglia .

Scientific work

Jones holds a BA in Environmental Sciences from Lancaster University and an MSc and PhD from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne . He is particularly known for his continuation of the instrumental temperature measurement series in the climatic area. In the IPCC reports published in 2001 and 2007, he made significant contributions to Chapter 12 (Detection of Climate Change and Attribution of Causes) and to the Third Assessment Report and was the lead author of Chapter 3, Observations: Surface and Atmospheric Climate Change of AR4 .

As co-director of the Climatic Research Unit , he worked with Jean Palutikof from 1998 to 2004 and has been sole director since then. He has been a member of the Academia Europaea since 1998 . By June 2018, Jones' research had been cited approximately 90,000 times. His h-index at this point was 139.

Hacker attack on the Climatic Research Unit and subsequent investigations

Once in had been stolen and hacked e-mails from the CRU published on the Internet , were of climate change deniers of data manipulation and disregard for applicable scientific standards against Jones and several of his colleagues allegations. Jones then temporarily suspended his position as director of the CRU. The work of the climate researchers at the CRU was subsequently examined in detail by three independent investigative commissions. The British Parliament's Science Committee came to the conclusion in March 2010 that the scientists at the CRU could not be blamed. It cannot be assumed that when the scientists rejected inquiries about research results, they tried to keep the public in the dark about climate data. A joint investigative commission of the British Royal Society and the University of East Anglia, chaired by Ronald Oxburgh , also exonerated Jones and his colleagues. There is "no evidence of willful scientific misconduct", the scientists around Jones had done their work "properly and precisely" and were "objective and dispassionate" in the data analysis. The investigative commission also condemned the harsh tone of the climate deniers. A third commission of inquiry, chaired by Sir Muir Russell, after six months of examination and hearing numerous witnesses, finally came to the conclusion that the allegations of data manipulation and the suppression of critics raised against Jones and his colleagues were unjustified. The key data for the reproducibility of their research results were available to any competent interested party, and there was no evidence of undermining the peer review process. The only criticism was the inadequate degree of openness on the part of the researchers and the unintentionally misleading labeling of a graphic from 1999. However, there was no doubt about the honesty and discipline of the researchers.

The allegations made in the meantime burdened Jones so much that he thought about suicide . He also received numerous death threats.

Jones was transferred to the newly created position of Director of Research in July 2010. The university emphasized that this is by no means a degradation.

Awards

Publications (selection)

Books
  • with Raymond S. Bradley (Ed.): Climate Since AD ​​1500. 2nd edition. Routledge 1995, ISBN 0-415-12030-6
  • with Raymond S. Bradley & Jean Jouzel (Eds.): Climatic Variations and Forcing Mechanisms of the Last 2000 Years. Springer, 1996, ISBN 3-540-60695-5
  • with Astrid EJ Ogilvie, Timothy J. Osborn & Keith R. Briffa (Eds.): History and Climate: Memories of the Future? Springer, 2001, ISBN 0-306-46589-2
  • with Dario Camuffo (Ed.): Improved Understanding of Past Climatic Variability from Early Daily European Instrumental Sources. Springer, 2002, ISBN 1-4020-0556-3
Essays

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Phil Jones, Colin Harpham & Mike Salmon: Data: Temperature . Climatic Research Unit website . Last updated January 2013
  2. ↑ a b UNEP / GRID-Arendal: IPCC Third Assessment Report - Climate Change 2001: Working Group I: The Scientific Basis. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 20, 2009 ; Retrieved May 30, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.grida.no
  3. ↑ Working Group I Contribution to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis - List of Authors ( Memento of the original dated February 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 23 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.climatescience.gov
  4. ^ Climatic Research Unit: History of the Climatic Research Unit
  5. ^ Directory of members: Philip Jones. Academia Europaea, accessed January 1, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Philip Jones . Google Scholar . Retrieved June 22, 2018.
  7. ↑ E-mail affair: Climate researcher leaves his office during investigation . In: Spiegel Online . December 2, 2009
  8. ↑ The Parliament's committee agrees with British climate researchers . In: The world . April 1, 2010
  9. ↑ Christopher Schrader : Climate Change - Second acquittal for climate researchers . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . April 15, 2010
  10. ^ Final report (PDF; 1.5 MB) of the Russell Commission
  11. ^ A b David Adam: "Climategate" review clears scientists of dishonesty over data . In: The Guardian . July 7, 2010
  12. ↑ Christopher Schrader : Climate Scientists - No Manipulation . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . July 7, 2010
  13. ^ Richard Girling: The leak was bad. Then came the death threats. In: The Sunday Times . February 8, 2010
  14. ↑ Michael McCarthy: "Conspiracy theories finally laid to rest" by report on leaked climate change emails. In: The Independent . July 8, 2010, accessed May 30, 2013 .
  15. ^ Hugh Robert Mill Prize . Royal Meteorological Society . Retrieved August 19, 2013.
  16. ^ Winners of the Norbert Gerbier-MUMM International Award . World Meteorological Organization . Archived from the original on September 21, 2015. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 29, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wmo.int
  17. ^ EGS Awards: Hans Oeschger Medalist - 2002: Philip D. Jones
  18. ^ Royal Meteorological Society: The Society's awards, 2002. In: Weather. 2002, Vol. 57, September 2002, pp. 352 f. ( PDF )
personal data
SURNAME Jones, Philip D.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jones, Philip Douglas; Jones, Phil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British climatologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1952