‘Climategate’ scientist considered suicide following e-mail row

By Jonathan Wynne-Jones
www.telegraph.co.uk
07 Feb 2010

The scientist at the centre of the “climategate” email scandal has revealed that he was so traumatised by the worldwide uproar that he considered committing suicide.

Professor Phil Jones said that he thought about killing himself “several times”, but had pulled through with the support of his family and the love of his five-year-old granddaughter.

He has lost more than a stone in weight and is on beta-blockers to help him in the day and takes sleeping pills at night.

The professor, who appeared to call on colleagues to destroy scientific data, is still receiving death threats from around the world more than two months after the scandal first unfolded.

He said that he has been shocked by the scale of the reaction, but admits that he misjudged the situation and regrets the way he handled Freedom of Information requests for data on climatic research.

“I regret that I did not deal with them in the right way,” he said in an interview with The Sunday Times.

Prof Jones has stood down as director of the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia, which has been accused of suppressing data after its e-mails were hacked and posted online by climate-change sceptics. Read more…

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