Climategate scientist Phil Jones regrets emails but stands by global warming conclusions | The Australian

He received more than 400 abusive emails: "There were some saying you should kill yourself and others saying 'we know where you live'. I did feel physically threatened at times.

"I tried to forward them to the police but they were bounced back by their computer because they were too obscene. So I had to print them."
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Professor Jones said the cold winter in parts of the Northern hemisphere had played a bigger part in fuelling scepticism than his emails. "People have a problem understanding what a global temperature average means. They see what the weather is where they are and if it's cold they think the rest of the world might be cold."
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He was particularly critical of George Monbiot, the environmentalist and newspaper columnist who called for his resignation soon after the e-mails were published. "He didn't retract it for months until after the Muir Russell review [the independent inquiry which exonerated him] came out and even then it was somewhat begrudging. To me it showed he didn't understand how science was done."
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He accepted he would continue to be best known as the Climategate scientist, but added: "Hopefully they will remember me for the scientific papers I have written rather than the emails."

'I want to be remembered for the science' says Phil 'Climategate' Jones to chorus of titters – Telegraph Blogs

“Hopefully also my numbers will all come up on the lottery this weekend as news comes through that I have won the Nobel prize for meteorology, while in the afternoon Megan Fox’s open-topped sports car breaks down outside my house and a sudden shower of rain soaks her to the skin forcing her to come inside to change while I make her a cup of tea and one thing leads to another and….” he almost added but didn’t.