Climategate: Dr. Phil Jones and Other Scholars Will Give Oral Evidence in Parliament on March 1, 2010

"I wish people would spend as much time reading my scientific papers as they do reading my e-mails."---Dr. Phil Jones

UPDATE: March 1, 2010 testimony in Parliament on video.

The U.K. Parliament's Science and Technology Committee has been investigating the so-called "Climategate" scandal, which arose after the disclosure of climate data from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia.

According to the latest news on the website of the U.K. Parliament's Science and Technology Committee, the famous climate scientist Dr. Phil Jones of the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) will be among those testifying at an oral evidence session in Parliament on Monday, March 1, 2010. [Here is the University's written submission to the Parliamentary Select Committee on Science and Technology. Here is the same submission in one document as published on the Parliament's site.]

THE DISCLOSURE OF CLIMATE DATA FROM THE CLIMATIC RESEARCH UNIT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA:
MEMORANDA AVAILABLE

The Committee have published on the internet all the submissions it has received in this inquiry ahead of Monday's oral evidence session: Memoranda

The Committee will hold the following oral evidence session in relation to its inquiry into the disclosure of climate data from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia:

Monday 1 March 2010

3.00pm The Rt Hon the Lord Lawson of Blaby, Chairman, and Dr Benny Peiser, Director, Global Warming Policy Foundation

3.30pm Richard Thomas CBE, former Information Commissioner

4.00pm Professor Edward Acton, Vice-Chancellor, University of East Anglia and Professor Phil Jones, Director of the Climatic Research Unit

4.40pm Sir Muir Russell, Head of the Independent Climate Change E-Mails Review

5.00pm Professor John Beddington, Government Chief Scientific Adviser, Professor Julia Slingo OBE, Chief Scientist, Met Office, and Professor Bob Watson, Chief Scientist, Defra