Embattled U.K. Scientist [Phil Jones] Defends Track Record of Climate [Scam] Center -- Kintisch 327 (5968): 934 Data Supplement - Extended Interview -- Science

Q: Let's pretend for a second that we threw out the CRU dataset. What other data are available that corroborate your findings about temperature rise?

P.J.: There's the two other datasets produced in the U.S. [at NASA and NOAA]. But there's also a lot of other evidence showing that the world's warming, by just looking outside and seeing glaciers retreating, the reduction of sea ice ... overall, the reduction of snow areas in the northern hemisphere, the earlier [annual] breakup of sea ice and some land ice and river ice around the world, and the fact that spring seems to be coming earlier in many parts of the world.
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Q: When in your career did the pressure from outsiders to criticize or, as you put it, distort your work become significant?

P.J.: In 2007, [once] the blog sites started. I had responded to some of these people in years earlier, but had given up. ... I just didn't have the time to respond. They didn't seem to want to understand. I was trying to be helpful then, so I essentially gave up.
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Q: You're a widely published scientist and with a lot more prestige than your critics. Why then were you reticent to share the data with these outsiders?

P.J.: I was pointing them to where they could get the same data and they could do their own analysis. They are intent on repeating the analyses of others. They are of course entitled to do whatever they want to, it's a free world, but they just don't seem intent on wanting to do their own work. They just seem intent on wanting to repeat what others have done. They're trying to slow us down, and waste time.
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Q: What was your background--what made you particularly interested in temperature records?

P.J.: I was a hydrologist before this.

Flashback: Climate Feedback: McIntyre versus Jones: climate data row escalates

Jones's response of 21/02/2005 to Warwick Hughes's request for Jones's raw climate data:
"Even if WMO agrees, I will still not pass on the data. We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it."

East Anglia Confirmed Emails from the Climate Research Unit - Searchable

At 09:41 AM 2/2/2005, Phil Jones wrote:.... If they ever hear there is a Freedom of Information Act now in the UK, I think I'll delete the file rather than send to anyone. Does your similar act in the US force you to respond to enquiries within 20 days? - our does ! The UK works on  precedents, so the first request will test it. We also have a data protection act, which I will hide behind. Tom Wigley has sent me a worried email when he heard about it - thought people could ask him for his model code. He has retired officially from UEA so he can hide behind that.

Flashback: Climategate: Warmist conspiracy exposed? | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

From: Timo H‰meranta
To:
Subject: John L. Daly dead
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 12:04:28 +0200

Mike,
In an odd way this is cheering news ! One other thing about the CC paper – just found another email – is that McKittrick says it is standard practice in Econometrics journals to give all the data and codes !! According to legal advice IPR overrides this.

Cheers
Phil