In case you dont know, Phil Jones was the director of CRU, the East Anglia University Climate Research Unit(CRU), until they removed him from that post because of climate-gate
In todays BBC Climate data not well organised, and here is the Q&A part of the interview he gave to investigators: First question labeled A
A Do you agree that according to the global temperature record used by the IPCC, the rates of global warming from 1860-1880, 1910-1940 and 1975-1998 were identical?
And the response:
So, in answer to the question, the warming rates for all 4 periods are similar and not statistically significantly different from each other.
Specifically, the Q-and-As confirm what many skeptics have long suspected:
* Neither the rate nor magnitude of recent warming is exceptional.
* There was no significant warming from 1998-2009. According to the IPCC we should have seen a global temperature increase of at least 0.2°C per decade.
* The IPCC models may have overestimated the climate sensitivity for greenhouse gases, underestimated natural variability, or both.
* This also suggests that there is a systematic upward bias in the impacts estimates based on these models just from this factor alone.
* The logic behind attribution of current warming to well-mixed man-made greenhouse gases is faulty.
* The science is not settled, however unsettling that might be
* There is a tendency in the IPCC reports to leave out inconvenient findings, especially in the part(s) most likely to be read by policy makers.
Yes Phil gave up the whole game. No unprecedented warming since 1995. The hockey stick has kinks as big as the paddle again. 1998, its not the warmest ever.
He gave up all the talking points that the whole battle has been waged for. They have zero rational argument and there is zero doubt.
Now can we have trials, please? It really would be timely and weve been ever so patient.
Footnote: The CRU is the UNs main climate unit, where they get all their data for the main IPCC AR4 report. The one that allegedly won a Nobel prize for.