I thought of killing myself, says climate scandal professor Phil Jones

Richard Girling
The Times
Feb. 08, 2010

Dr David Kelly exposed a fraud and got murdered for it. Phil Jones carried out a fraud and claimed he was going to kill himself for being found out in order to boost his faltering image. There is a difference. Him and his colleagues worked to politically eradicate their opposition, if they're at all similar to Dr David Kelly it is because of their similarities with his murderers.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.

Jones, 57, said he was unprepared for the scandal: “I am just a scientist. I have no training in PR or dealing with crises.”

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