EXAMPLE - Phil Jones
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Biography
Phil Jones is 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. He is principally known for the time series of hemispheric and global surface temperatures. He has been a fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society since 1992 and was on the Editorial Committee of the International Journal of Climatology until 1995. He is currently on the editorial board of Climatic Change.
Phil Jones has been awarder several scientific prizes included the Hugh Robert Mill Medal of the Royal Meteorological Society (1995); the Outstanding Scientific Paper Award by the Environmental Research Laboratories; the Hans Oesschger Medal from the European Geosciences Union (2002); the International Journal of Climatology prize of the Royal Meteoological Society (2002). He is recognised as one of the top 0.5% of highly-cited researchers in the Geosciences field by the ISI.
Source http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/people/facstaff/jonesp
Scientometrics indicators
- Number of Articles: 61
- Number of Citations: 5103
- h (%ile): 21 (NaN)
- g (%ile): 61 (undefined)
- hm (%ile): 9.48 (undefined)
Source http://scholarometer.indiana.edu/
Position on the climate warming controversy
As director of the East Anglia Climatic Research Unit and prominent member of the IPCC, Phil Jones has played a crucial role in the climate warming controversy. His major contribution to the controversy is the maintaining HadCRUT, one of the main datasets of instrumental temperature time series. HadCRUT analysis is compiled in a collaboration between the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit and the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research.
At the IPCC, Jones has been
- contributing author to chapter 12 (Detection of Climate Change and Attribution of Causes) of the 3rd Assessment Report
- coordinating lead author of chapter 3 (Observations: Surface and Atmospheric Climate Change) of the 4th Assessment Report.
Most of Jones’s works have been dedicated to proving the existence of global warming and its attribution to human activities.
Sub-controversies
Climategate. As director of the East Anglia Climatic Research Unit, Phil Jones was the sender or the receiver of a large part of the emails stolen and divulged in the socalled ‘climategate’ scandal. Jones was especially criticized for manipulating data visualization to prove climate change, opposing the publication of climateskeptics papers in peer-reviewed journals and in the IPCC report and for refusing to share data with climateskeptics. Jones answered these allegations claiming that its behavior has always be scientifically sound and that the citations from his emails have been misquoted and interpreted out of context.
Resources
Interview - EXAMPLE - Phil Jones interview
Media – EXAMPLE - Phil Jones Q&A at the UK Parliament
External links
